Share your backup strategy.

ReliableSiteHosting · June 16

What's your backup strategy?

NotFoundException · June 16

don't

zed · June 16

i just trust my provider to handle that

JohnFilch123 · June 16

Always backup after losing the data

emgh · June 16

Regular DB dumps & file backups to Backblaze B2 (everything) and Cloudflare R2 (only latest)

For my most important server I have a bash script that sets it all up, it’s way too big but I ain’t fixing that

For the things I’ve set up more recently i.e last few years, everything is Ansible so restoring is very easy

Nanja · June 16

I buy from reputable providers with automated backups.
If none, I don't buy.

miniopt · June 16

Btrfs snapshots for now.

mpkossen · June 16

3-2-1

Three copies of my data on two different types of media of which one is off-site.

Different types of media can also be one copy on a storage server and another one with a cloud provider.

Some advice:

Never, even blindly trust providers to make backups for you. This is only for quick access. Not for DR. If there's a disaster at your provider, chances are backups are affected too.
RAID is not a backup. Just means nothing goes down when a disk dies.
Btrfs/ZFS snapshots are not backups unless you move them to another server (and then still 3-2-1 should apply)

Jency · June 16

My provider includes free snapshot backups, but I don't rely on those alone. I also keep copies on a separate storage VPS using SFTP for extra protection.

nghialele · June 16

@ReliableSiteHosting said:
What's your backup strategy?

Real men don't do backup, trust their providers and their instinct

itoffshore · 2:17AM

3-2-1 - a mirrored system (zfs > btrfs) + external backup + remote

Borg backup is very good - encrypted backups that work like an image mounted over FUSE - works fine with a DirectAdmin Storagebox

mpkossen · 2:23AM

Borg is awesome.

Protocol903 · 3:29AM

Right now the most complete backup solution I have is of my minecraft smp server with 0 daily players. It's more of a system admin habit than not. Here is how:

I utilize ServerBackup plugin from spigot for my papermc server.
The ServerBackup plugin zips the three worlds(world, nether and end) and puts it in a certain directory.
I have a cron running that triggers at 2:30 AM in the morning that rsyncs those zip file to a separate directory.
That separate directory is a rclone mount of my @labze 10/10 storage box. Due to the way I utilize vfs cache, the backup is immediate and its the rclone's job to then eventually upload it to remote... which it will within max 45 minutes. I set vfs cache age to 45 minutes so once the rsync is done, the upload is immediate and if the "backup" file is not touched for 45 minutes, it is deleted from local vfs AFTER an uploaded copy is confirmed on remote.
That mount is accessible from anywhere of my chicken.

As for images on my phone, it is immich on my VPS exposed publicly through pangolin(public yet almost majority of things are blocked).

For manual homelab stuff like experimenting new scripts and shit, actual data is stored on storage box and config locally which i backup every once in a few months manually.

For all of my backup solutions, a restoration has been tested atleast once for each component. Especially considering how often I break shit up.

kkoneko · 3:33AM

I have simple rsync for these backup strat, syncing every minutes

4 dedi with raidz1 array on EU (spread out production)
1 dedi with big 2x raidz2 array on NA (backup location for 4 dedi as well acting as failover)

offline cold backup (multiple 8tb drives) on my house, automatically synced every week

DataRecovery · 5:10AM

Doing my best to:

Scp / WinSCP / SFTP to a storage VPS;
Some Rclone to a storage VPS and Mega as a secondary backup and to keep the old account active;
Sync to an external drive.

P.S.
I don't have proper email backups yet.

Would love to hear what you guys do to keep your inboxes easily restorable.