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

submitted 1 month 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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[–] unlogic 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Second restic or Borg with a rclone sync to storage. Restic will handle both for you though. Borg is an option if you want a local back up that then gets synced (or use restic to do multiple backups)

I use B2 storage and it’s dirt cheap compared to other offerings. You can use rclone to mount the bucket locally and only recover what you need to save on egress costs.

The advantage of restic/borg is not only encryption but snapshots, deduplication, and compression over a simple rsync.

Rsync.net can run a Borg server if you want to back up to that but B2 is much more cost effective.

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

Ok thanks i will look into B2 (is that just shorthand for backblaze or is it something in particular?)

I asked below here as well so no need to answer multiple times, but will restic encrypt when transferring or does it require that i can store the entire encrypted archive locally as well? or is that just borg?

[–] unlogic 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

B2 is Backblaze’a version of S3. It’s a cloud storage solution. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing

Restic will encrypt the backup https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/070_encryption.html

And it will backup directly to B2 so not intermediate storage is needed.

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

perfect, thanks a lot!!!

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

This is great additional information, much of which I didn't know!

I'm doing the backing-up-twice thing; it'd probably be better if I backed up once and rsync'd - it'd be less computationally intensive and save disk space used by multiple restic caches. OTOH, it'd also have more moving parts and be harder to manage, and IME things that I touch rarely need to be as simple as possible because I forget how to use them in between uses.

Anyway, great response!

[–] unlogic 1 points 1 month ago

For me i keep a local one so if I lose a file or something gets corrupted I can restore locally without any egress costs or network lag. The sync to remote is in case of local data loss for example fire or theft.

Rclone will (should) be faster than doing a restic sync due to not having to do any deduping etc.