Secure Offsite Backups: Verification & Hardening

Goal: Validate and harden the Restic + SFTP + WireGuard backup architecture.

#sftp #wireguard #hardening #restic

https://medium.com/@nyb.an/secure-offsite-backups-verification-hardening-f70daf1214c7

Secure Offsite Backups: Restic + SFTP over WireGuard.

Goal: Build a resilient, encrypted, and isolated backup system that survives total server failure.

#sftp #WireGuard #proxmox #restic

https://medium.com/@nyb.an/secure-offsite-backups-restic-sftp-over-wireguard-2eae5f5882de

Se hai un VPS / Server Linux e non hai ancora impostato dei backup automatici, questa potrebbe esserti utile:
Backup con Restic e rclone, guida passo passo, con approccio pratico e semplice da replicare.

🔗 https://www.risposteinformatiche.it/backup-automatici-vps-linux-restic-rclone/

@opensource @linux

#Linux #Backup #VPS #Restic #rclone #SysAdmin

One thing I want to figure out and build in a robust way is how to verify backups on NixOS via the restic module.

The secret management with sops-nix and per-host backup and restore logic to an append-only server is working. It just needs automatic testing, better notifications, and better insight.

The current idea is to spin up randomly and automatically a new NixOS host, configuring it as one of the others, and verifying if everything is restored correctly.

#NixOS #Nix #backup #restic

Den heutigen Tag ernenne ich zum Tag des Backups. Gefühlt habe ich mich nur um Backups in verschiedenen Szenarien gekümmert.

1. Windows Server Backup mit #VSS
2. #Veeam für Hyper-V
3. Skript für #restic angepasst
4. Mit #Powershell für einen Updatedienst herumgespielt

#Restore mache ich dann morgen. 😉

#backup

I use restic for backups. Great but it is cumbersome to build up some regular update strategy around that. However there is a create tool resticprofile. https://creativeprojects.github.io/resticprofile/index.html, to close that gap. One can schedule backups for example via Systemd Timers. This tool is even mentioned in the official docs of restic itself, https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/040_backup.html#scheduling-backups.

One caveat it has no packages in the official Linux distributions.
However it has build binaries on github.

#restic #ResticBackups #backup

New blog post!

I finally started writing about my home lab. This post is about how I back up data using restic.

Full story: https://britter.dev/blog/2026/04/10/home-lab-backup-with-restic/

#homelab #selfhosting #nixos #restic #backup