For my personal systems, I use rsnapshot to make incremental copies on a nightly basis into another internal SSD used only for backup. Because I only use SSD, the whole thing runs under a minute. Then monthly this gets it copied into an USB external HDD.
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#22I use borg for laptops and servers.
I use syncthing for (android) phones and tablets to sync photos/videos to home server where they are then backed up by borg.
In the past, I have used rdiff-backup and tarsnap.
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#23Tarsnap is my preferred backup provider for personal and work. Do be careful with the key. I also have a OneDrive.
Work stuff also goes on an LTO tape. I guess we are just traditionalists at heart.
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#24Daily Duplicity snapshots that sync to S3, plus hourly snapshots via Back In Time to an internal drive, plus an occasional manual rsync to a portable USB drive off-site.
Probably overkill, but if one backup method ever has a flaw I'm still fine.
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#25I use rsync, mostly to backup from LVM snapshots over SSH to either rsync --link-dest snapshots or ZFS snapshots.
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#26Encrypted rclone [1] with multiple cascaded self-hosted peers.
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#27CrashPlan. Dirt cheap for unlimited storage for generational backups for 10 machines. Whole extended family fits in one subscription.
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#28Dropbox for most stuff. External HDD for manual image backups.
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#29Crashplan. Its awesome
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#30I used to use backblaze, but their client would take up too much space - i've commented on here about it before being very buggy. So i switched to amazon cloud and have been syncing files that way.