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Has anyone experimented with BL-R for home server backup (or a backup's backup)? Are there tools for home use that help automate the backup, keep track of metad
by polskibus 7y ago
Has anyone experimented with BL-R for home server backup (or a backup's backup)? Are there tools for home use that help automate the backup, keep track of metadata, somehow handle delta backup to new discs, etc?
- cyphar 7y agoI'd suggest restic for backups (it's encrypted and deduplicated automatically, with the ability to have very simple retention policies). It backs up to basically any dumb storage service (S3, Backblaze, Google Cloud) and you can sync it yourself since it's just a tree of files like a git repo. For storage on the actual machine, use ZFS or something similar so that you can do your restic backups on an atomic snapshot.
- bpye 7y agoI use rclone on a SystemD timer on my NixOS box. Each night it'll sync the changes to a cloud provider. I couple this with automatic ZFS snapshots - this way in a catastrophic failure I'm at most 1 day behind, but if something gets deleted or such then I have snapshots to save (hourly). I even have those set up with "File History" with Samba/Windows so I can look at previous versions.