Selfhosted backup solution with GUI

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Selfhosted backup solution with GUI - lemm.ee

I have a confession to make. I’ve been working in IT for about 6/7 years now and I’ve been selfhosting for about 5. And in all this time, in my work environment or at home, I’ve never bothered about backups. I know they are essential for every IT network, but I never cared to learn it. Just a few copies of some harddisks here and there and that is actually all I know. I’ve tried a few times, but I’ve often thought the learning curve to steep, or the commandline gave me some errors I didn’t want to troubleshoot. It is time to make a change. I’m looking for an easy to learn backup solution for my home network. I’m running a Proxmox server with about 8 VMs on it, including a NAS full of photos and a mediaserver with lots of movies and shows. It has 2x 8TB disks in a RAID1 set. Next to that I’ve got 2 windows laptops and a linux desktop. What could be a good backup solution that is also easy to learn? I’ve tried Borg, but I couldn’t figure out all the commandline options. I’m leaning towards Proxmox Backup Server, but I don’t know if it works well with something other than my Proxmox server. I’ve also thought about Veeam since I encounter it sometimes at work, but the free version supports only up to 10 devices. My plan now is to create 2 backup servers, 1 onsite, running on something like a raspberry pi or an HP elitedesk. The other would be an HP microserver N40L, which I can store offsite. What could be the perfect backup solution for me?

Maybe Kopia is what you are looking for? It’s opensource and has a GUI:

“Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.”

GitHub - kopia/kopia: Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.

Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included. - kopia/kopia

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That seems cool! but it is not centrally managed, right?
Sorry, I’m not fully aware of that. I’m currently in a similar position like you, and Kopia is one of the things I going to try out :)
You could do pull based backups with a central kopia instance and remote machines as described here: github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/1636#issuecomment-1…
Pull-based backups ? · Issue #1636 · kopia/kopia

Hello, I would like to replace an old backup strategy with a tool like kopia, but I am unsure if my use case can be handled. I have 2 servers and would like to use one of them as a "backup server" ...

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