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.
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Encrypted backup to google drive weekly from unraid, planning to get a NAS for another backup location
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.
Rsnapshot to an external USB drive.
Probably not the best, but it works for my little 6TB OpenMediaVault server with some Docker thrown in.
Duplicati. Works like a charm. Supports practically every backend (S3, backblaze, one drive, Google, storj, sia, even Tahoe!
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
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my solution is syncthing
I have an old synology DS1513+
it runs Active Backup for business and Active backup for google workspace, as well as an AFP share for Apple machines. This is about 95% of all backups. Those backup archive files are then ALSO backed up to one of two large 14TB hdds. I swap them out monthly (or thereabout) and keep the spare at my office or in my firesafe when at home.
I have a couple other things out there too. A small SSh box to handle some scripting of config file backups etc. My main synology 1815+ also has a cloud sync up to backblaze that happens in realtime, but only keeps 1 copy of stuff as well as a hyperbackup job for super important stuff up to Backblaze, in addition to the nightly backups to the 1513+. This way if my house burns down I still have something (and likely a full copy with the 14TB HDD)
I've been using Restic for a while, and it's backing up to a Hetzner storage box (1TB).
Restic supports encryption, compression, deduplication, and can forget old backups in a spread out timeline (configurable; e.g. save one yearly, three monthly and 7 daily).
On top of this I also use healthchecks.io to make sure all backups are working.
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.
raid1 + data duplication
Photos, videos, music, documents, etc.. are available on multiple devices using SyncThing.
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Thanks! I just started setting up NixOS on my laptop and I'm planning to use it for servers next. Saving this for later!