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I'm setting up off-site backup, how? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My dad also used to self-host. Now I run all of the services he used to, and more.

Anyway, his server is still around so I thought I might as well use it for an offsite backup box, I run a matrix instance and nextcloud, as well as other things. But those two are the contents of which matter most.

How would you set this up?

Just a nightly rsync over sftp? That seems ineffecient. Is there a best way ro do this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Tell us a bit about your environment! Are you all linux or do you have Windows as well? Are you running a hypervisor like Proxmox or VMWare or using containers? Are you just making complete backups, or can you forsee yourself needing granular file restores? There are a number of ways you could go, depending on your setup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

All linux.

Mostly running stuff directly, though I have some things in containers.

I've consolidated configs and such into just a few folders that I can bring over to a new system to get everything running again without losing anything.

This backup will likely only ever be needed in a catastrophic failure scenario where my local system is entirely lost.

Unless that happens, I already have enough redundancy locally to recover from any lesser mishaps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are all linux, perhaps you'd like Borg. It's pretty easy to set up, and perhaps it offers the de-duplication you crave. It's also got some GUIs you can run, if you are into that kind of thing. If you don't feel inclined to use any backup software, then using rsync over ssh (scp, yes) instead of SFTP is a solid way to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good options. Thanks!

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