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I'm trying to plan a better backup solution for my home server. Right now I'm using Duplicati to back up my 3 external drives, but the backup is staying on-site and on the same kind of media as the original. So, what does your backup setup and workflow look like? Discs at a friend's house? Cloud backup at a commercial provider? Magnetic tape in an underground bunker?

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[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All persistent storage from my dockers are in a folder. All I have to backup everything is backup this one folder along with my docker compose files (in git).

Locally there are zfs snapshots (autosnapshot) and for remote I use borgmatic.

Borg to :

  1. Local server
  2. Friends server
  3. Borgbase
[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've never heard of Borgmatic before... How's it work?

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Its an automation software for borg backup to run on a schedule and keep a certain number of backups while deleting old ones etc.

[–] m33@theprancingpony.in 1 points 1 year ago

@lka1988 @Lem453 Primarily a frontend tool designed to make your life easier, torsion.org/borgmatic , but I tend to avoid macros, frontend scripts, or even GUIs like this. They may obscure Borg-specific configuration details that, hypothetically, could one day hinder your restoration process.