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Question for the HN crowd: what’s the best way to back up a NAS using client side encryption?

olavgg 5y ago
ssh with zfs send/receive. No problems having hourly backup of your most important petabyte scale data on the other side of this planet.< I even do this with Microsoft SQL Server using iSCSI.
metalliqaz 5y ago
I use rclone.
- divbzero 5y ago
  I use rclone as well and it has worked reliably for years. Keeping the password [1] separate allows me to restore files to a fresh computer as needed. Backblaze B2 is just one of many backend options [2]. [1]: https://rclone.org/crypt/ https://rclone.org/crypt/ [2]: https://rclone.org/overview/ https://rclone.org/overview/
  - throwawaysea 5y ago
    How does one use this with something like a Synology NAS? Or is that not really the intended workflow? I’m imagining something like a local backup plus a backup to cloud.
    - dsego 5y ago
      You can run it on synology via docker, there are guides online. But it's not really straightforward.
    - divbzero 5y ago
      I’m not 100% on which workflow you are looking to set up. If you are trying to backup to Synology NAS, you could mount the NAS and use rclone’s “local filesystem” storage backend.
      - throwawaysea 5y ago
        I was thinking that I could use a readymade NAS (along with their software) to backup things locally but then I also want a secure and privacy backup of that NAS to a cloud.
    - cdumler 5y ago
      If you want to backup just data, restic works very well; however, you're not backing up configurations or applications. Use HyperBackup. B2 S3-api is compatible.
rsyring 5y ago
Borg
derhuerst 5y ago
I use restic, so far it has worked very well. https://restic.net/ https://restic.net/
shaicoleman 5y ago
I use Restic + Backblaze B2, and I'm quite happy with it, but I had to spend quite a lot of time customising scripts/configuration to work properly. If I were to start over, I would likely choose kopia, which does everything restic does and more (better performance, compression, GUI, etc.), and seems to provide a better out-of-the-box experience. That said, I haven't tried it out yet. https://kopia.io/ https://kopia.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27471945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27471945

ssh with zfs send/receive. No problems having hourly backup of your most important petabyte scale data on the other side of this planet.< I even do this with Microsoft SQL Server using iSCSI.

metalliqaz 5y ago

I use rclone.

divbzero 5y ago
I use rclone as well and it has worked reliably for years. Keeping the password [1] separate allows me to restore files to a fresh computer as needed. Backblaze B2 is just one of many backend options [2]. [1]: https://rclone.org/crypt/ https://rclone.org/crypt/ [2]: https://rclone.org/overview/ https://rclone.org/overview/
- throwawaysea 5y ago
  How does one use this with something like a Synology NAS? Or is that not really the intended workflow? I’m imagining something like a local backup plus a backup to cloud.
  - dsego 5y ago
    You can run it on synology via docker, there are guides online. But it's not really straightforward.
  - divbzero 5y ago
    I’m not 100% on which workflow you are looking to set up. If you are trying to backup to Synology NAS, you could mount the NAS and use rclone’s “local filesystem” storage backend.
    - throwawaysea 5y ago
      I was thinking that I could use a readymade NAS (along with their software) to backup things locally but then I also want a secure and privacy backup of that NAS to a cloud.
  - cdumler 5y ago
    If you want to backup just data, restic works very well; however, you're not backing up configurations or applications. Use HyperBackup. B2 S3-api is compatible.

rsyring 5y ago

Borg

derhuerst 5y ago

I use restic, so far it has worked very well. https://restic.net/ https://restic.net/

shaicoleman 5y ago

I use Restic + Backblaze B2, and I'm quite happy with it, but I had to spend quite a lot of time customising scripts/configuration to work properly. If I were to start over, I would likely choose kopia, which does everything restic does and more (better performance, compression, GUI, etc.), and seems to provide a better out-of-the-box experience. That said, I haven't tried it out yet. https://kopia.io/ https://kopia.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27471945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27471945