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Backrest is amazing. Can't recommend it enough
Hope and a prayer
PBS for my Proxmox instances,
Borg for my VPS instances,
Ansible for automation.
Borg, 2x remote redundancy for important instances
Have a PBS instance both locally and remotely
Restic utilizing our own in-house portal that helps manage servers. Strategy dependent on how much I want to spend/how important the data is to me/how much data there is. For critical data, will do S3 + my own bucket storage. For less critical data, I might just do it to wherever I have enough space at the moment.
Just remember, backups are only one part of the equation. Are they good and usable backups? This was a huge issue with crypto ransomware where it might lay dormant in your system for a few months, so when you reverted to a prior backup you were still compromised!
Currently BorgBase with Restic.
Only critical important things to me is docker compose configs and they're small in size so just cp to remote webdav of a cloud provider after every edits.
I use this cron job on all my servers:
0 0 * * * rsync -a /important/data /dev/nullBackups are for the mentally weak. Real G's don't need them because they livin' life on hard.
YOLO
For production, I rely on RAID
For others, its thoughts and prayers
RAID 0, right?
Since I'm an Acronis Certified Engineer so naturally a lot of my customers run Acronis in various forms. There are a few Veeam and Avamar installations as well.
Personally, I rely on Restic. I have two storage servers in different parts of the world running the Restic Rest Server. All my other vps's run local backups plus remote backup to those servers.
Restic has been awesome for me. Rock solid, good performance and easy to script and automate.
rclone to a couple of s3 providers for redundancy
All MySQL data is replicated with nightly backups
99% yes, RAID 0
Some providers are good and offer raid 1/ 5/ / 10/ 60 (atleast the claim)
So there's that.
VMs are backed up using full disk to B2 & R2
Then, application specific backups using bash scripts and crons are performed, and sent to B2 and R2
I also have a restore bash script that sets EVERYTHING up and pulls latest backups to restore everything
Genuinely impressed
Have you tried the restore script?
Have you tested any restore data?
I have something like this. Interactive bash restore script where I can specify exactly which s3 bucket and endpoint I need. It then mounts it and I select from the available backups what I wish to restore
Maintain?
My backups?
Nicee, mine just picks the latest but I can see that be useful
To backup my 17 years old Pentium 478 desktop I manually dump a compressed tarball of its filesystem into an SD card about once a year... if shit hits the fan I lose up to about a year of screensaver settings and browser history. Because no important data is stored there.
To backup the VPSs that run the Price Tracker website there is daily cronjob that dumps their filesystems into a workstation I have in the basement and keeps incremental snapshots for up to one month.
To backup the basement workstation there is a weekly cronjob that dumps the RAID 1 into a third backup disk.
Yeah, like 2-4 times a year I schedule like 15-30 min of downtime, during this, I manually run all backups for all applications, save a copy of the VM's full disk image, proceed to reinstall Debian from scratch and run the restoration script
Reason I don't do it more often etc is simply because I have the extra security of the VM's whole disk being backed up as well if something's up with the application backups
Since R2 is a bit more expensive than B2, the rules for removing backups is more aggressive on R2 than B2. Both will always have the most recent backup, but B2 contains much more in terms of GB
glad to see that.
awesome job
All the "backups what backups" comments are already taken, sadface.
Thanks
Pbs once a while for whole vms/lxcs
For data, duplicati.
For sanity? Once every few years put on a ssd/hdd/usb stick, wrap in alu foil and plastic and more and throw in a basement and hope you never need it
Especially the SSD; look up data retention for SSDs.
I run automated incremental backups every 6 hours with Borg + rsync, daily local snapshots, and weekly offsite copies to a different datacenter. For extra redundancy, I sync encrypted, versioned copies to S3-compatible storage (Wasabi/B2) using rclone. Cron handles rotations and checksum verification (SHA-256) to make sure nothing’s corrupted. Biggest takeaway: test your restores regularly — way too many people find out their backups don’t actually work when it’s too late.
The majority of people rely on their provider’s RAID and have no backups, showing a reckless level of confidence.
What do you mean by backup?
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858tb-of-government-data-may-be-lost-for-good-after-south-korea-data-center-fire/
https://winbuzzer.com/2025/10/06/south-korea-loses-858tb-of-government-data-in-fire-after-skipping-backups-xcxwbn/
Veeam for VMware, FTP Backup for Proxmox & Qemu but mostly for backup everything i like FTP Backup
or leave it to another person