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I recently implemented a backup workflow for me. I heavily use restic for desktop backup and for a full system backup of my local server. It works amazingly good. I always have a versioned backup without a lot of redundant data. It is fast, encrypted and compressed.

But I wondered, how do you guys do your backups? What software do you use? How often do you do them and what workflow do you use for it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nice try, mister ransonware attacker hacker!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Timeshift for snapshots and deja backups for files

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

My work flow is pretty similar to yours:

For my desktop and laptops: systemd timer and service that backups every 15 minutes using restic to my NAS.

For my NAS : daily backup using restic + ZFS snapshots.

All restic backups are then uploaded daily to Backblaze B2.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I recently bought a storagebox from Hatzner and set up my server to run borgmatic every day to backup to it.

I've also discovered that Pika Backup works really well as a "read only" graphical browser for borg repos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Most of my data are on 2x16TB HDDs running an mdraid1 and then I backup it all to a usb drive with Borg Backup.
The os.qcow2 files live on my m.2 NVMe and are manually backuped to the mdraid1 before running the borg backup.
I should automate the borg backup but currently I just do it manually a few times a month.
Would also like to have two usb drives and keep one offline in another part of the house but that's another future project.

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