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You should look at Borg for the remote backup software. It does automatic deduplication; has the security posture you're asking for ("untrusted server")*; and i

You should look at Borg for the remote backup software. It does automatic deduplication; has the security posture you're asking for ("untrusted server")*; and is agnostic about which backup cloud provider you use it with. Of course it's FOSS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(backup_software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(backup_software) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642364 ("BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver", 103 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34152369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34152369 ("BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption", 177 comments) *You definitely don't want your private filenames leaked to data brokers, like Backblaze's clients experienced. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019 ("Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook", 517 comments)

pushedx 3y ago
Thanks for surfacing the story about Backblaze. I had the same type of thing happen to me with the LastPass leak, which made me very wary of closed-source supposed-e2e encrypted services. Looking at Borg, it doesn't seem to have native support for the actual transfer of the remote backup. It seems like if I used Borg it would be for a local backup, and then I would need an additional layer to sync the backup to remote storage. It looks like rclone does, mentioned in other comments here, any others?
- GGO 3y ago
  restic is also great
  - mmh0000 3y ago
    Restic is nice because it has Windows support too.
mmh0000 3y ago
In conjunction with Borg, look at InterServer[1] for a VPS. They provide some of the best cost-per-GiB storage. I've been using them for 3 years, and I prepay a year in advance. I've been super happy. They're cheap; maybe they'll suffer data loss, but I practice the 3-2-1 backup strategy[2]; if they lose data, I have a local backup; if by some weird chance both InterServer goes down and my house burns down at the same time, I've got another backup drive at my parents' house. If you're more risk-averse, there's rsync.net[3], but it is substantially more expensive. However, it has really good data backup practices on its side. [1] https://www.interserver.net/storage/ https://www.interserver.net/storage/ [2] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ [3] https://rsync.net/ https://rsync.net/
- joshspankit 3y ago
  > if they lose data, I have a local backup 1. How can you tell if they’ve lost data that requires pulling from the local backup 2. What happens if they silently corrupt the data?
  - mmh0000 3y ago
    With `borg check`[1]. [1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html

pushedx 3y ago

Thanks for surfacing the story about Backblaze. I had the same type of thing happen to me with the LastPass leak, which made me very wary of closed-source supposed-e2e encrypted services. Looking at Borg, it doesn't seem to have native support for the actual transfer of the remote backup. It seems like if I used Borg it would be for a local backup, and then I would need an additional layer to sync the backup to remote storage. It looks like rclone does, mentioned in other comments here, any others?

GGO 3y ago
restic is also great
- mmh0000 3y ago
  Restic is nice because it has Windows support too.

mmh0000 3y ago

In conjunction with Borg, look at InterServer[1] for a VPS. They provide some of the best cost-per-GiB storage. I've been using them for 3 years, and I prepay a year in advance. I've been super happy. They're cheap; maybe they'll suffer data loss, but I practice the 3-2-1 backup strategy[2]; if they lose data, I have a local backup; if by some weird chance both InterServer goes down and my house burns down at the same time, I've got another backup drive at my parents' house. If you're more risk-averse, there's rsync.net[3], but it is substantially more expensive. However, it has really good data backup practices on its side. [1] https://www.interserver.net/storage/ https://www.interserver.net/storage/ [2] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ [3] https://rsync.net/ https://rsync.net/

joshspankit 3y ago
> if they lose data, I have a local backup 1. How can you tell if they’ve lost data that requires pulling from the local backup 2. What happens if they silently corrupt the data?
- mmh0000 3y ago
  With `borg check`[1]. [1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/check.html