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How do you backup your data? (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've been considering paying for a European provider, mounting their service with rclone, and thus being transparent to most anything I host.

How do y'all backup your data?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I do an automated nightly backup via restic to Backblaze B2. Every month, I manually run a script to copy the latest backup from B2 to two local HDDs that I keep offline. Every half a year I recover the latest backup on my PC to make sure everything works in case I need it. For peace of mind, my automated backup includes a health check through healthchecks.io, so if anything goes wrong, I get a notification.

It's pretty low-maintenance and gives a high degree of resilience:

  • A ransomware attack won't affect my local HDDs, so at most I'll lose a month's worth of data.
  • A house fire or server failure won't affect B2, so at most I'll lose a day's worth of data.

 

restic has been very solid, includes encryption out of the box, and I like the simplicity of it. Easily automated with cron etc. Backblaze B2 is one of the cheapest cloud storage providers I could find, an alternative might be Wasabi if you have >1TB of data.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How much are you backing up? Admittedly backblaze looks cheap but at $6 Tb leaves me with $84 pcm or just over $1000 per year.

I'm seriously considering a rpi3 with a couple of external disk in an outbuilding instead of cloud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn't backblaze is like $6 per TB 🤔🤔🤔

So $216 a year?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

$6 x 14Tb = $84 month x 12 months = $1008 per year, or did I miss read the prices?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sorry, I thought you or somebody said they store 3TB. Probably I'm mistaken, sorry 🥲

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh, I think we're talking different orders of magnitude here. I'm in the <1TB range, probably around 100GB. At that size, the cost is negligible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Also you know it's also possible to setup backups on the drive connect, also a good thing to turn off the networking beforehead 😶‍🌫️ (Also it's possible to do "timer usb hub", it's not very off-site, but a switch can turn on every X days and the machine will mount it and do the backup, then the usb hub turns off (imagine putting it in a fireproof safe with a small hole for a usb cable))

Also, i'm using ntfy.sh for notifications And if you're using raid, you can setup it with on a drive failure