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Backing up my media collection on something like rsync.net? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a couple of local copies of my media collection, but in case of my house burning down in a fire i would like to not have to rebuild my entire media collection. rsync.net offers some fairly reasonable storage prices (i guess there are many other good options as well).

Would you guys have any second thoughts on storing the entirety of your media collection on a remote server like that unencrypted?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I wouldn't.

Use a proper backup tool for this, like restic. BackBlaze has reasonable rates, especially of you're mostly write-only, and restic has built-in support for B2 and encrypts everything by default. It also supports compression, but you won't get much out of that on media files. restic is also cross-platform and a single executable, so you can throw binaries for OSX, Linux, and Windows on a USB stick and know you can get to your backups from anywhere. It also allows you to mount a remote repository like a filesystem (on Linux, at least), and browse a backup and get at individual files without having to restore everything. It's super handy if you screw up a single file or directory.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wouldn’t

Is it rsync in general you wouldnt or rsync.net?

Never heard of restic so i will definitely need to check this out. I was not planning on having a solution that is continuously running but rather dumping everything there once and then sync new file maybe once a month or something.

[–] HooDis 8 points 1 week ago

rsync by itself provides no encryption, and i wouldn't use just rsync by itself. That's probably what he meant.

You should use something else with rsync that encrypts the data before uploading it to a server that you don't own physically.

Or use restic, which takes care of the uploading part too, so you can skip using rsync altogether.

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