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I just started getting into self hosting using docker compose and I wonder about possible backup solutions. I only have to safe my docker config so far, but I want host files as well. What software and hardware are you using for backup?

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

veeam is pretty simple and powerful, the community version is free if you are only using it for a small environment (CPU cores is what it counts)

I havn't used it for docker but it says it is supported

[–] vairfoley@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I use Veeam to backup shares on my NAS to rotated external drives. I also backup a Linux server.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I just started setting up NixOS on my laptop and I'm planning to use it for servers next. Saving this for later!

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Encrypted backup to google drive weekly from unraid, planning to get a NAS for another backup location

[–] hogofwar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if it's a smart solution but I have a HDD in my server that is used just for backups, each night I have rsync automatically moving stuff from multiple locations that I want to back up onto the drive. After that is done I have Kopia backup to B2, with compression, deduplication and encryption. I use healthchecks.io as well to alert me if any of the steps fails to complete (but none of the steps block each other).

[–] dr_robot@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

ZFS send to a pair of mirrored HDDs on the same machine ever hour and a daily restic backup to S3 storage. Every six months I test and verify the cloud backup.

[–] rambos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Everything:

Kopia encrypted -> another phisical drive

Kopia encrypted -> backblaze B2

  • Chron job every day at 4:15 AM

Most important folder (part of everything):

Duplicaty encrypted -> google drive

  • Also daily backup
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[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 1 points 1 year ago

I have an old synology DS1513+

it runs Active Backup for business and Active backup for google workspace, as well as an AFP share for Apple machines. This is about 95% of all backups. Those backup archive files are then ALSO backed up to one of two large 14TB hdds. I swap them out monthly (or thereabout) and keep the spare at my office or in my firesafe when at home.

I have a couple other things out there too. A small SSh box to handle some scripting of config file backups etc. My main synology 1815+ also has a cloud sync up to backblaze that happens in realtime, but only keeps 1 copy of stuff as well as a hyperbackup job for super important stuff up to Backblaze, in addition to the nightly backups to the 1513+. This way if my house burns down I still have something (and likely a full copy with the 14TB HDD)

[–] dtc 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using Restic for a while, and it's backing up to a Hetzner storage box (1TB).

Restic supports encryption, compression, deduplication, and can forget old backups in a spread out timeline (configurable; e.g. save one yearly, three monthly and 7 daily).

On top of this I also use healthchecks.io to make sure all backups are working.

[–] sv1sjp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Rsync custom script. I am connecting two different hard disks (1 natively + 1 remotely via ssh) to backup the disk.

1 tine per month, U unplug ny microsd fro my Raspberry Pi 4 Server and I am making a full backup of the sd in case it fails, to restore it to a new sd card.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 0 points 1 year ago

A lot of services have some kind of way to create backup files. I have cronjobs doing that daily then uploading it to some cloud storage with rclone.

[–] mariom@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

For containers (but I use k3s) I use git to store helmfiles and configuration, secrets in ci/cd system.

For the rest - I use autorestic that backups data over ssh and S3.

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I've gotten decent results from s3cmd sync.

[–] ScandalFan85@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

For my workstation I'm using a small script that packs and compresses all relevant directories with tar once a week. The resulting file is then copied to a local backup drive and to my NAS. An encrypted version of that file is sent to an offsite VPS.

For my selfhosted services (on Proxmox) I'm using ProxmoxBackupServer.

[–] sam@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

raid1 + data duplication

Photos, videos, music, documents, etc.. are available on multiple devices using SyncThing.

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