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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.

[–] unlogic 4 points 1 week ago (5 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 week ago (2 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 week 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