QOTD: How do you back up your files?

@mckinley@twtxt.net restic

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you, I’ll have to follow your phlog’s Atom feed. I see you’re using tag URIs, nice. :)

That looks like a good system. Simple and effective. I ask because my current backup system is lacking and I’d like to do something about that. I don’t want to use cloud storage, so I’ll be moving hard drives around. I’m just not sure on what to do on the software side.

Solutions like Restic and Borg have many advantages, but the disadvantage is that your data is confined to that particular tool. I think I’m willing to make that trade to have snapshots, compression, deduplication, etc. I’m just on the fence about which one I should use.

@prologic@twtxt.net, why did you choose Restic? How do you like it so far? If you’ve had to restore from the backup, what was that like?

@mckinley@twtxt.net NextCloud on a Raspberry Pi

@mckinley@twtxt.net ninja backup and Borg

@mckinley@twtxt.net ninja backup and Borg

@mckinley@twtxt.net backintime for my desktop and work files. A combination of rsync, zfs snapshots, and redundancy for “at rest” type things.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I use spideroak backup, and switched from selfhosted nextcloud to proton drive.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I clone the important stuff on two separate clusters, but both are in my house. One of these days I’m planning to ask my brother to put a server of mine in his house, and then we can cross-clone for offsite backups that don’t require the cloud.