Someone on Lemmy posted a phrase recently: “If you’re not prepared to manage backups then you’re not prepared to self host.”
This seems like not only sound advice but a crucial attitude. My backup plans have been fairly sporadic as I’ve been entering into the world of self hosting. I’m now at a point where I have enough useful software and content that losing my hard drive would be a serious bummer. All of my most valuable content is backed up in one way or another, but it’s time for me to get serious.
I’m currently running an Ubuntu Server with a number of Docker containers, and lots of audio, video, and documents. I’d like to be able to back up everything to a reliable cloud service. I currently have a subscription to proton drive, which is a nice padding to have, but which I knew from the start would not be really adequate. Especially since there is no native Linux proton drive capability.
I’ve read good things about iDrive, S3, and Backblaze. Which one do you use? Would you recommend it? What makes your short list? what is the best value?
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3,2,1.
My nas is a Synology with raid.
- Backup with versions to a single large HD via USB. This ransomware protection or accidental deletion. (Rsync)
- Offsite copy to backblaze b2.One version. (Rsync) (~$6/month) This would be natual disaster protection. flood, fire.
- Second not raided cheaper Synology at a friends on the other coast. This has ~3 versions. Sorta the backup to the first two.
How do you do versioning with rsync? I use rdiff.
Maybe it’s diff presented as versions? I use hyper backup on Synology.
Similar to these steps:
https://gist.github.com/mrl22/476d710fea63d71a770d0d44ca54325a
3, 2, 1. ❤
Without implementing this, it’s a delusion that some company, regardless of the size and reputation, can be trusted to keep our data safe.
You can get append only backups on backblaze with their lifecycle rules. So that can have ransomware protection too
“Append only backup” what’s that?
Its a system where you can only apppend, not delete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Append-only
Its what’s required for ransomware safe backup system, since the attacker can’t delete your backups because they can only append
Oh, I see, I didn’t know that “nomenclature”. Thanks! Good for some thing, dangerous for other because the stored data keeps growing.
With backblaze you can set lifcycle rules. For example, any file with the regex “daily” in it automatic gets deleted after 30 days. And any file with “yearly” in it gets deleted after 5 years
A server in a friend/family member’s home. All of the cloud based backups I’ve encountered seem either unaffordable or have annoying limitations.
I keep all my data local on hard drives, and then use Backblaze personal backup
I’ve been using pcloud. They do one time upfront payments for ‘lifetime’ cloud storage. Catch a sale and it’s ~$160/TB. For something long term like backups it seems unbeatable. To the point I sort of don’t expect them to actually last forever, but if they last 2-3 years it’s a decent deal still.
Use rclone to upload my files, honestly not ideal though since it’s meant for file synchronisation not backups. Also they are dog slow. Downloading my 4TBs takes ~10 days.
Nobody that uses Wasabi?
Too expensive
When I’ve signed up was the cheaper. I’ve just checked and it’s $6.99/TB/month and Backblaze B2 is actually cheaper ($6/TB/month). Are there other differences that you know of? There must be since everyone is using Baclblaze.
I prefer my local storage. Can’t vouch for any cloud storage.
Upside of Wasabi to my infrastructure: It’s compatible with Veeam.
I use restic to backblaze b2.
Yep, Duplicacy to Backblaze B2 for me
Same
I’m on Pcloud, server with rsync+rclone to move files from file system to cloud and use it as a unified file system.
The lifetime storage offer from pcloud has been worth it for me and I even upgraded it from 2 to 12 TB
I want to set up a backup from my Synology NAS to Pcloud. Can I ask if your setup allows you to restore from Pcloud too? Or would you have to do a fresh NAS setup and just put all your files back on the NAS and Pcloud serves more as a file backup?
