What do you use for offsite backup? Since best practice recommends 3 copies on 2 different devices where one device is offsite.

I thought about renting a storage box from Hetzner to use as an offsite backup but I was curious what you are using. And also if there might be some cheaper alternatives to my proposed solution that are equally as easy to setup.

  • TDCN@feddit.dkEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I have a raspberry pi with a cheap 5TB usb drive at my parents house that boots up once a week and pulls a backup. I use rsnapshot to create incremental updates that takes up every little space and is easy to manage. I have the drive accessible with smb should I ever need to pull a copy from there. It’s super slow but that doesn’t matter for an off-site backup and it is super cheap

    Edit: I should maybe add for future readers that cheap does not mean cheap quality but cheap relative to the amount af TB you get per dollar. I use a WD shingled drive wich is quality drive but cheap and slow af. But it doesnt matter because the internet connection is the bottleneck anyway.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    Plex Brand of media server package
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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  • thisfro@slrpnk.netEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I have a Synology NAS at my parents place and I backup there every night with borg

  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’ve also been using hetzner storage boxes. They are as cheap as it gets and my internet connection is the limiting factor anyway.

    • tofubl@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I’ve recently started using a Hetzner storage box for encrypted daily incremental backups and I’m very happy with it so far.

  • socphoenix@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I just keep an encrypted hard drive at work and bring it home to sync once a month/sooner if there’s a bunch of vacation photos we just added to the server or something. External hard drives are cheap nowadays

    • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      This is also what I do, weekly. It’s one of the cheapest (cheap SATA drive and USB enclosure, pay once) and most reliable methods, and arguably one of the most secure (the offsite backup drive is also offline most of the time).

      A simple script on my desktop sends a desktop notification reminding me to plug the USB drive, once it’s mounted backups get pulled from my servers to the external disk, then I get a notification to unplug the drive and store it away. There’s about 15 minutes every week where all backups are in the same place. To be extra safe, use 2 drives and rotate them each week.

  • zipkag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I use backblaze B2. I use duplicity to create a local encrypted backup of daily and then monthly incremental backups that are stored on a separate hard drive as a local backup. I then sync that with backblaze every night. It’s worked like a treat. Gives me my primary data, a local backup on a separate drive and then an off-site backup. And actually my primary data and my local backups are both on ZFS raidz2 drives, so I can even have drives fail and be okay.

    I used to use glacier, but the backblaze interface and uploading scripts were just so much easier to use, and the price was comparable if not maybe just slightly cheaper, I can’t remember exact. I think duplicity also has a front end, duplicati that some people use, but I’ve never used it.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I haven’t used it, but restic was mentioned in an earlier backup discussion. It appears to be able to use rclone, which can talk to object storage.

  • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    If you have a Windows or Mac machine, Backblaze will give you UNLIMITED backup storage (not B2) for $7 per month. They won’t let you use Linux and they won’t let you back up network drives, because that’s easy to abuse.

    So, I have an 8TB drive in my Windows Plex server and shared on the network, and I have every other machine in my house backing up to that network location. Because the drive is local to that one windows machine, Backblaze will back it all up, and any other drives I put on there. I use FileHistory to back up my Windows gaming machine and SyncThing to back up non-Windows machines.

    It takes a little work to set up with SyncThing, but I’m pretty sure that’s one of the cheapest ways to back up a shitload of data. And Backblaze recently upgraded the unlimited plan to 1 year of history.