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restic into other servers, local devices and/or for example Hetzner storage boxes. Depends on how important the data is.
Separate hosts and/or separate locations.
Remember to test recovery every once in a while. Painful lesson.
Depends.
I used to use Urbackup quite religiously, but have moved to PBS for most of my personal/low-priority workloads.
For production, Veeam Backup & Replication.
My disaster recovery plan is to post on LET after the disaster and shame the hosting provider into making my data reappear. Others use this plan with mixed results which is a little concerning, but I'm confident it will work for me.
Today I just discovered that termux on android can install borgbackup and so I've just knocked up some scripts to backup my photos and any attached mass storage devices. Tidy. I'm not sure the hotels I'll be staying in when I'm travelling will appreciate me uploading 100s of GB per day (I'm planning to get an insta360 x6 for this holiday), but I guess that's a problem for future me.
borg is good
Incremental and differential backup.
Anyone have these strategies?
For zfs, full initial copy then backup dump from each snapshots.. any better idea?
Remote storage, rsync and my own crons, when it comes to backing up my own personal vps/bare metal private projects, like to store few backups locally as well for quick restore, but for our Cloud we use PBS remote storage with RAID configuration. You can never ever be too careful with backups, always remember "backup your backups" it's a good saying.
borg backup handles incrementals and deduplication. I've used it many times to do full system restores and partial data restores.
Also, since I'm using btrfs, I take snapshots, so sometimes I've just rolled back to a snapshot instead of restoring.
We're using Duplicati (running in Docker), and backing up to Backblaze B2 in 2 regions. So yes, it goes to a different provider - it definitely must be a different provider to keep your backups safe for whatever reason your service is cut off (VPS co goes out of business, your account is suspended for right or wrong, your card expired while on holiday/in hospital/just forgot). Don't keep all your eggs in one basket, imagine losing your VPS AND your backups! Really, we should split our backups too so that they're with different providers.
Regarding restores, we've restored files and directories a few times, and a full restore once. It worked fine though just very slow (a Duplicati 'feature', I've read others are much faster).
Re: moving to something like an Acronis backup solution - I don't know.
Anyone doing full initial back up and put it off line and then regular incremental/differential online?
Curious which tool fully supports this.
Proxmox Backup Server for VPS backups, pipe over ssh on a remote server for individual accounts.
Restic + Rclone with IDrive e2 has been working really well for me for archive/cold backups. Their first-year offer is 2 TB for $29.75.
cron + duplicacy (automated via shell scripts and duplicacy-utils) + rclone
1 local backup and 2 remote backups in different geo's.
Regularly tested restores for my vps's and it's a breeze.
Like so many, I have cron jobs that use Borg for local backups, rclone to NAS, then rclone to Backblaze B2 (which is super cheap). I have an external SSD for the NAS to sync to.
Maybe it doesn't need to be said, but I'm not backing up the OS. I shifted most everything to Docker and put the setups in Git (with SOPS for the passwords). Very brainless now and tested monthly.
Some with Borg to HostBrr and PulsedMedia, others with Restic to Storj and BorgBase. I need to do some migrations
borgbackup with
--append-onlyon the server is a good option. Even if someone hacks your server, they can't delete your backups unless they also hack your backup server. That's as good as offline as I need at the moment.restic to a storage vps and i sync it to a cloud storage
We use one of the S3 provider. Daily post right after schedule backup. Useful so far, no complains.