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Simple Minimal Backup Solution (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by sum_yung_gai@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Last night I was writing a script and it made a directory literally named "~" on accident. It being 3am I did an rm -rf ~ without thinking and destroyed my home dir. Luckily some of the files were mounted in docker containers which my user didn't have permission to delete. I was able to get back to an ok state but lost a bit of data.

I now realize I really should be making backups because shit happens. I self host a pypi repository, a docker registry both with containers and some game servers in and out of containers. What would be the simplest tool to backup to Google drive and easily restore?

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[–] april@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's different kinds of backups. For this you don't need off-site storage.

For this I set up zfs auto snapshotting which means when I delete stuff it isn't really deleted because a snapshot is still pointing at it until it rolls off the time window.

Both zfs and btrfs can do this but you do need to change the filesystem to use these which can be a lot of work.