mein #offsite_backup nähert sich der Fertigstellung.

Ein alter D2701 Atom in einem thecus NAS wird zu meinem Bruder an einen Glasfaseranschluss verfrachtet.

4 enterprise 1TB HDDs mit ZFS raidz2 + 1 coldspare.

#ProxmoxBackupServer und bissel #docker mit #restic_rest_server und #scrutiny.

Nun ist die Kiste nicht mehr die schnellste und mit #netbird ist bereits alles verschlüsselt, also können wir darin plaintext machen.

good old #rsyncd rockt auf der alten Gurke noch 450Mbit Durchsatz 😎

After hearing zfs.rent mentioned a couple of times on recentish @25admins episodes, I thought I'd give them a go.

For $10 a month (paying 12 months up front) you get a decent sized VM and you ship them a HDD which they hook up to that VM.

My VM has only just gone live, but I've got FreeBSD running on it and a nice 3TB pool attached.

I'm currently sending 200G of data up there from South Wales, UK. It's fairly slow, but perfectly adequate for a backup.

Their tools are basic - you get 1TB bandwidth (up/down total) a month and have to pay for extra, but it's an honesty system!
So I've whipped up a small script using vnstat and @pushover (thanks for @dvl for the recommendation) to monitor monthly traffic and warn me if I'm getting close.

I'm holding out hope that Hetzner one day offer receiving ZFS snapshots on their storage box solution (which already uses ZFS under the hood) for an additional off-site backup.

#zfs #backup #offsite_backup

Can someone point me to a pragmatic guide to person information security best practices for backups?

Specifically, I’m wondering how offline backups should be secured when using Backblaze & Backblaze b2. How do I ensure that when I need to restore, I'll have the keys/passwords necessary, if I’m not relying on memory? #backblaze #encryption #offsite_backup #mymemorysucks