Backup Options
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saxxappeal · 2023-12-24 04:32

Hi all, long time lurker here.

I have a few days off work, so I took the time to rebuild my home
setup.

. The old setup was an old Mac Pro running Virtual Box to deliver my
services (Plex, NextCloud, a few others). The host was a very old
version of MacOS (High Sierra 🤦‍♂️). I used Mac built-in disk
management to create 2 separate RAID mirrors, and all of this was
backed up with Backblaze.

The new setup is already mostly up and I'm loving it! Same hardware
with a few drives swapped. Proxmox on bare metal, all services are now
in LXC unprivileged containers, and I'm using ZFS mirrors to provide 2
pools where everything important lives.

I really liked an unlimited cloud backup in case my house catches on
fire or something. Backblaze doesn’t have a straightforward way to
offer this for my current setup, and I really like the low monthly
price point.

What are you all using for cloud backup on headless Linux servers? Or
am I just gonna have to build something, install it in my parents’
house (500 miles away), and use rsync magic like I’ve done before?

Thanks for reading!!

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Ejz9 · 2023-12-24 07:04

Just finnished setting up my backup plan.

I currently use Kopia in a docker container as I appreciate the webUI.
It defuplicates and always  encrypts (if that’s what you like). I have
two containers running. One, backs up to a repository (backup storage
location) on my 5TB external drive (I only have max 2TB to save). The
other runs  connecting to backblaze B2 cloud storage (don’t confuse
this with the personal plan) which so far is working superb. 2 days in
😄.

I tried proxmox once but I’ll leave my opinions aside. I will
recognize though that everything may not directly contact the storage
you have in the same way. So Kopia probably isn’t a solution for you.
I hear proxmox has a snapshots features and backups feature built in
though so if you take those and maybe shove them into some backup
software that backs them up externally that may work.

This thread might help: https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/w1nb
bg/how_do_you_backup_your_zfs_pools_datasets_with/

I apologize that I am not completely knowledgeable I just saw no one
has said anything so figured I would. I tried Proxmox like a month ago
but tailscale and GPU passthrough were killers for me. Also, remember
redundancy is not necessarily backup.

Good luck!

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IceOleg · 2023-12-24 08:41

I'm using Restic as a back up program, uploading to
[rsync.net](https://www.rsync.net/) as a back end.