Selfhosted

I use a Backuppc instance hosted on an off site server with a 1Tb drive. It connects through ssh to all my vms and backups /home and any other folders i may need. It handles full and incremental backups, deduplication, and compression.

I back up my home folder to an encrypted drive once a week using rsync, then I create a tarball, encrypt it, and upload it to protondrive just in case.

Holy crap. Duplicity is what I've been missing my entire life. Thank you for this.

I backup locally to my NAS with Synologys Drive software, the NAS does a 10 day rolling snapshot of the backup folder. First I then had Hyper Backup set up to do a versioned backup from the NAS to a cloud provider.

But I got scared of the thought that a corruption would propagate through the whole backup chain. So now I do an additional backup for the most important stuff directly from my PC with restic + resticprofile to a Hetzner storage box. I know they do not give any promises about data reliability, but I think chances of the local and remote backup breaking at the same time are pretty slim.

Restic is sending a fail/done ping to an uptime-kuma instance I host myself to monitor the backup which then notifies me with ntfy if backups fail or are missed for a couple of days.

Nextcloud with folder sync for both mobile and PC, backs up everything I need.

I backup an encrypted and heavily compressed archive to my local nas and to google drive every night. NAS keeps the version from the first of every month and 7 days prior history and google drive just the latest

I just use duplicity and upload to Google drive.

In the process of moving stuff over to Backblaze. Home PCs, few clients PCs, client websites all pointing at it now, happy with the service and price. Two unraid instances push the most important data to an azure storage a/c - but imagine i'll move that to BB soon as well.
Docker backups are similar to post above, tarball the whole thing weekly as a get out of jail card - this is not ideal but works for now until i can give it some more attention.

*i have no link to BB other than being a customer who wanted to reduce reliance on scripts and move stuff out of azure for cost reasons.

I don't backup my personal files since they are all more or less contained in Proton Drive. I do run a handful of small databases, which i back up to ... telegram.

For my server I use duplicity, with a daily incremental backup and sending the encrypted diffs away. I researched a few more options some time ago but nothing really fit my use case, but I'm also not super happy with duplicity. Thanks for suggesting borgbackup.

For my personal data I have a NextCloud on a RPi4 at my parents' place, which also syncs between my laptop that I've left there. For an offline and off-site storage, I use the good old strategy where I bring over an external hard drive, rsync it, and bring it back.

Got a Veeam community instance running on each of my VMware nodes, backing up 9-10 VMs each.

Using Cloudberry for my desktop, laptop and a couple Windows VMs.

Borg for non-VMware Linux servers/VMs, including my WSL instances, game/AI baremetal rig, and some Proxmox VMs I've got hosted with a friend.

Each backup agent dumps its backups into a share on my nas, which then has a cron task to do weekly uploads to GDrive. I also manually do a monthly copy to an HDD and store it off-site with a friend.

On my home network, devices are backed up using Time Machine over the network. I also use Backblaze to make a second backup of data to their cloud service, using my own private key. Lastly, I throw some backups on a USB drive that I keep in a fire safe.

Rsync script that does deltas per day using hardlinks. Found on the Arch wiki. Works like a charm.

I use backupninja for the scheduling and management of all the processes. The actual backups are done by rsync, rdiff, borg, and the b2 tool from backblaze depending on the type and destination of the data. I back up everything to a second internal drive, an external drive, and a backblaze bucket for the most critical stuff. Backupninja manages multiple snapshots within the borg repository, and rdiff lets me only copy new data for the large directories.

btrfs and btrbk work very well, tutorial: https://mutschler.dev/linux/fedora-btrfs-35/

For smaller backups <10GB ea. I run a 3 phased approach

• rsync to a local folder /srv/backup/
• rsync that to a remote nas
• rclone that to a b2 bucket

These scripts run on the cron service and I log this info out to a file using --log-file option for rsync/rclone so I can do spot checks of the results

This way I have access to the data locally if the network is down, remotely on a different networked machine for any other device that can browse it, and finally an offsite cloud backup.

Doing this setup manually through rsync/rclone has been important to get the domain knowledge to think about the overall process; scheduling multiple backups at different times overnight to not overload the drive and network, ensuring versioning is stored for files that might require it and ensuring I am not using too many api calls for B2.

For large media backups >200GB I only use the rclone script and set it to run for 3hrs every night after all the more important backups are finished. Its not important I get it done asap but a steady drip of any changes up to b2 matters more.

My next steps is to maybe figure out a process to email the backup logs every so often or look into a full application to take over with better error catching capabilities.

For any service/process that has a backup this way I try and document a spot testing process to confirmed it works every 6months:

• For my important documents I will add an entry to my keepass db, run the backup, navigate to the cloud service and download the new version of the db and confirm the recently added entry is present.
• For an application I will run through a restore process and confirm certain config or data is present in the newly deployed app. This also forces me to have a fast restore script I can follow for any app if I need to do this every 6months.

My important data is backed up via Synology DSM Hyper backup to:

• Local external HDD attached via USB.
• Remote to backblaze (costs about $1/month for ~100gb of data)

I also have proxmox backup server backup all the VM/CTs every few hours to the same external HDD used above, however these backups aren't crucial, it would just be helpful to rebuild if something went down.

https://somedaysoon.xyz/posts/tech/backups/

In short: crontab, rsync, a local and a remote raspberry pi and cryptfs on usb-sticks.

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Veeam community for me. Cross backup locally between my 2 servers at home, and then a copy job to an offsite NAS.

Have had to restorations before, and never had any issues.

Fuck it, we ball.