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What are you guys using for VPS backups these days?
tech_withr_s
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I've been looking at my backup setup lately and started wondering what everyone else is doing.
It's pretty easy to say "I have backups," but when something actually breaks, the important part is whether you can get everything back quickly without a headache.
For a small VPS or a couple of websites, a simple remote backup is probably enough. But once you have multiple servers, databases, and other important data, things can get a bit more complicated.
I've been looking into Acronis backup and recovery recently. The centralized management and recovery options look interesting, especially if you're dealing with several machines. I'm also considering whether Acronis backup is actually worth it for a smaller setup, or if it's better to keep things simple.
There are obviously plenty of other options too. I've seen people using rsync, Borg, Restic, provider-level backups, and even their own scripts.
So I'm curious what you guys are using:
What backup setup do you currently have?
Do you keep your backups with a different provider or in another DC?
Do you regularly test whether the backups can actually be restored?
At what point would you consider moving to something like an Acronis backup solution?
Not really looking for a "best backup software" answer. I'm more interested in what has actually worked for people in real-world setups.
Because honestly, a backup isn't much help if you only find out during an emergency that restoring it is going to take forever.
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After careful consideration, extensive deliberation, and approximately zero debate, no, we will not be using NetForChoice.
borg with borg ui. Sometimes simple bash scripts with rclone
3-2-1 with rsync on snapshots for important data
Nothing for unimportant data (which is the majority of my boxes) since I can just set them back up in 20 minutes if they go down.
I use a rsync, Borg, provider-level backup, and own scripts.
Most of the backups are stored on Hetzner storage boxes and the most important backups is stored in multiple places.
All backups are encrypted.
Backrest
Zerobyte
Databasus (for DB)
This is probably the most overlooked aspect. Not just testing the integrity of the backup but checking you're not missing something crucial from the dataset each and every day, e.g. encryption keys that might/should be stored separately from encrypted data.
1) Backups on vps level are most handy, as they restore quickly when you messed up your vps.
2) However if you just want to restore 1 file, then you need a regular file backup tool. Make always a full backup locally and
3) remote (outside your current datacenter DC).
4) And to be a IT pro, have a offsite full backup of your data hidden in a physical vault.
The amount of effort in your backup depends on how valuable the data is. So if its not so important just 1 is enough. 1 & 3 when its more important. If restore time is important do also 2. If you want disaster proof do also 4 on a location far away from your operating datacenters.
borgbackup, mostly to a bunch of different HostHatch servers, but I have 2 other providers and also 2 dedis in the mix of destinations. Everything is backed up to at least 3 places, some important services to as many as 8.
Using borg and restic with https://onidel.com/services/storage-vps
borg is relatively fast, and i'm using cronjobs to control all the vpses, extremely efficient
Proxmox Backup Server for the important vm's and containers (with replication to another offsite system)
sshfs to some of my other VPS'
borg with borg ui. https://www.borgbase.com/
Google Drive: They give Pixel users a year's worth of Google AI Pro, including 5TB of Google Drive space. Also, for US students, I can distribute one Google AI Pro account to five accounts.
Compared to VPS, Google Drive is free and offers large storage (5TB). Purchasing a Google AI Pro license can support up to six Google accounts. However, it requires adherence to Google's terms and conditions, and data cannot be directly compared; any changes necessitate a complete file backup, consuming more bandwidth.
Buying and running websites isn't my primary source of income, so using Google Drive backups is sufficient for me.
What a wild question to ask on here. Nobody is using backups. The disaster recovery plan is to open a thread about how you lost millions!
Almost my applications running in docker container, so I just use offen docker volume backup image to automatic send the volume content to S3 (BackBlaze, R2). For file, just rsync or duplicacy (on my NAS)
I am using restic with Cloudflare R2 storage. Currently I only have one main machine to back up
I use proxmox backup server and zerobyte Backup in 3 different locations
Using restic on all VPSs to backup to two geo-diverse storage VPSs running 'rest-server'.
I have a lifetime subscription to a flexible platelet that does everything including DevOps.
I download images of my projects which is fast and easy and upload.
I've tried just about everything but restic is the one that stuck. It's fast, efficient, I love the rest-server api, it works very well in scripts and it has never failed me.
Backups are sent to two different providers and I even backup one of the backup servers to a NAS at home.
I have a scheduled job that choses a file at random, restores it from backup and compares it to the original.
I am actually an Acronis Certified Engineer but I do not run Acronis for personal stuff. It's a great product but I see no need for it for personal vps's.
Daily restic backups to Backblaze B2 and to three different storage VPSes with three different providers running restic's API server, plus rclone sync to B2 for server mirrors.
Some may say it's overkill. They may be right.
I have provider backups enabled whenever they provide the option. Other than that, I use rclone to backup to koofr and backblaze daily midnight. And I dont have huge backups, at present my backups are just near 60GB of which most is by immich.
What do you mean by "I've been looking into"? You work for a company that literally provides this
Yes
Borg + restic to different storage vps/ftp
Haven't tried this in a while, but does it support backing up all databases without having to create a backup job for each one yet?
RAID 1 is enough
rclone , rsync and the last all in boom