Landrin201Jul 22, 2023

What backup service do you use?

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What backup service do you use? - Lemmy

I just got my home server up and running and was wondering what you guys recommend for backups. I figure it will probably be worth having backups on cloud servers tjay are external, are there any good services yall use for that?

Show threadshadowbert
Duplicati, to a friend's home server who lives in another town.
Jul 22, 2023 at 8:04amWeb
Show threadGlitzyArmrestJul 22, 2023
I hate to ask the scary question, but have you tried to restore your backups before? I used Duplicati and discovered that none of my backups were usable and ended up switching to Duplicacy.
Show threadLemmoxJul 22, 2023
+1 for Duplicacy. It just works, truly does. Duplicati on the other hand seems to work, but has a tendency to fail on restore, just as you described.
Show threadrambosJul 22, 2023

It works just fine for me, but Iโ€™ve heared scary storries so now Im using:

  • Kopia to backblaze b2 (all data)
  • Kopia to local disk (all data)
  • Duplicati to google drive (only 1 folder)
    • Show threadHumaniusJul 22, 2023
    How would one realistically go about testing their backup? Do you need a bunch of empty drives?
    Show thread๐“ข๐“ฎ๐“ฎ๐“™๐“ช๐”‚๐“”๐“ถ๐“ถJul 22, 2023
    You donโ€™t need to do full restores, spot check random files.
    Show thread๐“ข๐“ฎ๐“ฎ๐“™๐“ช๐”‚๐“”๐“ถ๐“ถJul 22, 2023
    This is why I switched to restic.
    Show threadshadowbertJul 23, 2023

    An important question though.

    I have, when I first set it up, and again once when I needed to.