Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#1

Post by SnowingXIV » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:28 PM UTC

Do you keep work and personal separate? Do you use multiple providers like iCloud/OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive or do you stick to one? Do you do any type of auto-sync folders?

What's your process like? I'm curious on what people to find the most automatic and reliable solution for typical day to day with photos, documents, and their work backups. (Thinking more along the lines of your own side projects or things that you're more in control of, less on the corporate side that have imposed solutions and is managed by a team).

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#2

Post by mvip » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:48 PM UTC

I just spent some time this weekend rebuilding my backup routines. In short, I Borg [1] and multiple targets. For a local target at home, I use a RasPi with RAID1 [2]).

For company sync/backup, we use AeroFS [3].

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000024 [3] https://aerofs.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#3

Post by codegeek » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 5:51 PM UTC

I use aws-cli tools. I create buckets on S3 and then use a simple script:

    aws s3 sync  s3:// --delete

If needed, put this in a cron and you are good to go

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#4

Post by avitzurel » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

Arq.

S3 and google drive.

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#5

Post by JoachimSchipper » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

Tarsnap. I like knowing that cperciva is ensuring the security of my backups. ;-)

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#6

Post by RKearney » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

avitzurel wrote: post #4

Arq. S3 and google drive.

+1 for Arq. I use the 1TB of storage I get with my Office 365 subscription to backup my Documents, keys, photos, and other volatile files. Everything else gets backed up to AWS Glacier.

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#7

Post by edp » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

I use rsnaphot, with ssh to backup remote hosts/servers.

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#8

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 6:43 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#9

Post by msh » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 6:44 PM UTC

Dropbox + spideroak.

Dropbox for non sensitive stuff and spideroak for complete PC backup.

Re: Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

#10

Post by egypturnash » Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 6:45 PM UTC

Time Machine + Backblaze.