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rsync to storage nodes, PBS and/or S3 where applicable
PBS on dedicated or vps server?
Storage VPS + SCP for your VMs. Mine is from @servarica_hani
For local files / manual backup use FileZilla / WinSCP / Rclone.
AndFTP / FTP Express for your phone.
Plenty of other options and configs are available since this isn't a "passive" storage, but a full-featured machine.
❗️ Ditch big tech, support small businesses.
Do the same not only for files, but also at least for VPN and email (low-end alternatives are here as well).
storage server running proxmox backup server with tailscale
Big tech often too complex and too expensive. You need trainings and an army of tech consultants to implement, and sales cant explain how much it will cost.
I mostly use cheap dedis from OVH and recently also a few VMs that have a S3 data store configured. It's supported out of the box from version 4 and above
PBS on a VM inside PVE so that it can be move for whatever reason (also leverage cluster firewall, network).
I hope you use a shared storage like CEPH or at least have the backups on external storage or S3 and only the OS on a VM
For anything small and personal, rsync. For anything production, ZFS remote snapshots.
Yes, depends on the location, the host are at least boot from zfs-1 and storage are raidz or ceph. OP only ask for the solution so my to go is Proxmox.
As for the complete strategy, this is only for the 'hot' PBS that most nodes send backups to. It is tied to a subdomain so I don't have to setup every time this one moves. There are other PBS instances that pull from this 'hot' one. Ever since PBS support push functions, this 'hot' instance have no idea about other PBSes in existence as well.
I was just looking at OVH’s new Backup Agent service for Bare Metal.
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/storage-solutions/backup-agent/technical-overview/
Backrest: https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
The ideal LET backup solution is having no backup.
PBS is ideal backup only if you are using Proxmox ... If you are using other VPS (spread across multiple locations) its probably less ideal.
Are there any recommend Backup Solutions with a nice GUI ?
Sometimes I miss R1Soft. It has it's issues. but it was pretty nice for restoring individual files.
Interesting one. They're acting as a Veeam service provider for this, so the backup software is Veeam, which is enterprise level.
The cost is €7.17 per TiB per month.
restic to s3 bucket
rsync everything in labze box/vps, then rsync that box/vps to storage vps with servarica or novacloud. Keep at least 3 copies on 3 diff providers. Ovh ks for the 3rd option.
+1 to this
for inside VM backups: restic to backblaze (cheaper
) Set up monitoring with Healthchecks to make sure it doesn't fall over. Works well
For outside VM / full snapshot backups, I currently have a terrible setup putting the snapshots into restic, and it ends up eating 30x the space since it doesn't deduplicate properly at all even though gzip alignment is turned on.
I really need to set up an offsite PBS...
Rsync to 2 different storage servers plus a local (office) copy for really critical stuff.
KISS!
LOL
Backups and security always the lasts on the todo lists. Its very common.
That backrest tool looks good.
I've been using Kopia for the past few years after getting tired of issues with larger multi TB backups with Duplicati.
I'm running a Kopia Master repo server on a @NetDynamics24 backup plan so maintenance gets run locally and then run a kopia docker container on the machines I want to backup.
This has been working really well for me and kopia being able to do the backup maintenance tasks locally on the machine hosting the backups is a huge plus vs doing it over the network which was working but just becomes slow once the backup size grows.
I use borgbackup with multiple servers for my backups, in different locations. I mostly wait for Hosthatch deals, but I'm a bit over-reliant on them, so I'm also starting to look at other providers too.
Currently I have storage at HH in AMS (2TB), LA (5TB), SG (6TB), SE (7TB), LDN (10TB), from other providers in NJ (1TB), NY (2TB), some space set aside on my dedis in FR (1TB), DE (1TB), SLC (1TB) and finally a VM on my home router (0.5TB).
My business critical data is backed up onto around 8 of these.
The less important data for the business is backed up onto at least 3 of them.
There's a lot of data that's been generated that I don't really want to lose as there's a slim chance I may need it, but it probably isn't hugely important if it did get lost as I don't expect I actually will need it in the future. This stuff is currently only backed up onto 2 of them, but will gradually shift to 3 now I have more capacity since Christmas and NY sales.
I'm planning to look into borg2 in the future as this improves deduplication as everything shares a single repository, and I have a lot of small VMs on my dedis that are all very similar (about 20 VMs are still running bullseye, about 20 of them have been upgraded to bookworm as and when, and about 10 more were installed as bookwork). For the most part, they have at least 1.5GB of common files each. I do kind of like the isolation that separate repositories provide though.
borgbackup has a really cool option too, you can mount the repo like a normal storage.
This backfired real fast with the cloudcone situation
I read the situation. However backing up encrypted drives doesnt help either. Only when you have your daily's, weekly's and best also monthly's in place then you are safe. With only mirroring(rsync) or raid running, that won't save you from these disasters.