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I’ve been looking at this project occasionally for more than four years. The development of version 2.0 started sometime in April 2022 (IIRC) and there’s still

by AnonC 1y ago

I’ve been looking at this project occasionally for more than four years. The development of version 2.0 started sometime in April 2022 (IIRC) and there’s still no release candidate yet. I’m guessing that it’ll be finished in a year from now. What are the current recommendations here to do periodic backups of a NAS with lower (not lowest) costs for about 1 TB of data (mostly personal photos and videos), ease of use and robustness that one can depend on (I know this sounds like a “pick two” situation)? I also want the backup to be completely private.

homebrewer 1y ago
You definitely should have checksumming in some form, even if compression and deduplication are worthless in this particular use case, so either use ZFS on both the sending and the receiving side (most efficient, but probably will force you to redo the NAS), or stick to restic. I've been mostly using restic over the past five years to backup two dozen servers + several desktops (one of them Windows), no problems so far, and it's been very stable in both senses of the word (absence of bugs & unchanging API — both "technical" and "user-facing"). https://github.com/restic/restic https://github.com/restic/restic The important thing is to run periodic scrubs with full data read to check that your data can actually be restored (I do it once a week; once a month is probably the upper limit). restic check --read-data ... Some suggestions for the receiver unless you want to go for your own hardware: https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts https://www.borgbase.com https://www.borgbase.com (the code is NOT a referral, it's their own internal thingy that cuts the price in half)
ralferoo 1y ago
Borg 1.x will still be fine for your needs, especially if you only have a single machine that you want to back up. The main advantage for Borg 2.x will bethat multiple machines can backup to the same repository and de-duplication will work across all of them. There are plenty of storage server providers where you can get ssh access and 1-2TB for a few dollars per TB per month. You can run multiple repositories from a single server. As the data is encrypted, even if the storage server is compromised, your data can't be read by others without the key.

by AnonC 1y ago

homebrewer 1y ago

You definitely should have checksumming in some form, even if compression and deduplication are worthless in this particular use case, so either use ZFS on both the sending and the receiving side (most efficient, but probably will force you to redo the NAS), or stick to restic. I've been mostly using restic over the past five years to backup two dozen servers + several desktops (one of them Windows), no problems so far, and it's been very stable in both senses of the word (absence of bugs & unchanging API — both "technical" and "user-facing"). https://github.com/restic/restic https://github.com/restic/restic The important thing is to run periodic scrubs with full data read to check that your data can actually be restored (I do it once a week; once a month is probably the upper limit). restic check --read-data ... Some suggestions for the receiver unless you want to go for your own hardware: https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts https://www.borgbase.com https://www.borgbase.com (the code is NOT a referral, it's their own internal thingy that cuts the price in half)

ralferoo 1y ago

Borg 1.x will still be fine for your needs, especially if you only have a single machine that you want to back up. The main advantage for Borg 2.x will bethat multiple machines can backup to the same repository and de-duplication will work across all of them. There are plenty of storage server providers where you can get ssh access and 1-2TB for a few dollars per TB per month. You can run multiple repositories from a single server. As the data is encrypted, even if the storage server is compromised, your data can't be read by others without the key.