I just started getting into self hosting using docker compose and I wonder about possible backup solutions. I only have to safe my docker config so far, but I want host files as well. What software and hardware are you using for backup?
veeam is pretty simple and powerful, the community version is free if you are only using it for a small environment (CPU cores is what it counts)
I havn’t used it for docker but it says it is supported
I use Veeam to backup shares on my NAS to rotated external drives. I also backup a Linux server.
ZFS send to a pair of mirrored HDDs on the same machine ever hour and a daily restic backup to S3 storage. Every six months I test and verify the cloud backup.
Duplicati. Works like a charm. Supports practically every backend (S3, backblaze, one drive, Google, storj, sia, even Tahoe!
A lot of services have some kind of way to create backup files. I have cronjobs doing that daily then uploading it to some cloud storage with rclone.
I use rsync with an offsite backup.
Thanks! I just started setting up NixOS on my laptop and I’m planning to use it for servers next. Saving this for later!
Rsync custom script. I am connecting two different hard disks (1 natively + 1 remotely via ssh) to backup the disk.
1 tine per month, U unplug ny microsd fro my Raspberry Pi 4 Server and I am making a full backup of the sd in case it fails, to restore it to a new sd card.
I host everything on Proxmox VM’s so I just take daily snapshots to my NAS
Local backup to my Synology NAS every night which is then replicated to another NAS at my folks house through a secure VPN tunnel. Pretty simple and easy to deploy.
Sounds good. What do you use for replication?
Just simple old rsync. The nas at the far-end is an old QNAP I had lying around.
Most likely Hyper Backup & Hyper Vault, two applications built into Synology’s DSM software that runs on their NAS devices.
I don’t know if it’s a smart solution but I have a HDD in my server that is used just for backups, each night I have rsync automatically moving stuff from multiple locations that I want to back up onto the drive. After that is done I have Kopia backup to B2, with compression, deduplication and encryption. I use healthchecks.io as well to alert me if any of the steps fails to complete (but none of the steps block each other).
At the moment I’m doing primarily hopes and prayers
I was in the same boat, until my prayers weren’t listened and my hopes are now dead.
I lost some important data from my phone a few days ago. My plan was to backup at night but chaos was that same day in the morning.
Ah yes, the ostrich algorithm.
I had to upgrade to Hopes&Prayers+ after I ran out of hope and my prayers kept getting return to sender.
I’ve had excellent luck with Kopia, backing up to Backblaze B2.
At work, I do the same to a local directory in my company provided OneDrive account to keep company data on company resources.
I’ve gotten decent results from s3cmd sync.
I use Backblaze B2. I was using AWS S3 but the Backblaze pricing is significantly better.
You should look into s3 deep glacier. It’s $0.001 GB / month. Caveat is there’s a 6 month minimum charge per object.
