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

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Post by jenkstom »

For home: Synology NAS backing up to glacier weekly. It doesn't get a lot of use, so it's very cost effective.

For work: projects on gitlab.com and servers (all Linux-based servers) I use Backup Ninja. Backup Ninja is really just a front-end for several other packages, making it easy to setup backups via SSH on a remote server.

Databases are backed up locally, then everything is backed up to a remote server using rdiff. I can have 30 or 60 days of backups for a relatively small cost. The backups go to a 2TB server hosted by another cloud provider, which is more space than I need.

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

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Post by tinalumfoil »

greggman wrote: post #104

I'm using Arq ( https://www.arqbackup.com/ ) with Google Cloud Storage. Arq is a stand alone backup program that supports a bunch of different storage providers. From their site: > Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive accounts, or your SFTP server or NAS. It encrypts locally so I don't have to worry about the backup company reading my files. I have 3 backup…

How does this handle one of the backup sources going down or losing your data?

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

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Post by groovy2shoes »

dpc59 wrote: post #128
Rhapso wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I would personally stockpile hard liquor if I wanted to hedge for a social collapse. Whiskey never goes bad, it's always useful and a few ounces can go a long way.

> Whiskey never goes bad

As long as you keep it sealed in an air-tight container and in complete darkness. Oxygen and/or light will trigger chemical processes that result in undesirable flavor changes.

Just a heads-up, speaking from experience and research :)

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

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Post by JustinGarrison »

eps wrote: post #113
alkonaut wrote: post #27

CrashPlan. Dirt cheap for unlimited storage for generational backups for 10 machines. Whole extended family fits in one subscription.

Tried restoring from it yet? /r/datahoarders have a long list of horror stories about that. Admittedly, these guys operate in TBs, but the general feeling on the sub towards CrashPlan is to avoid it at all costs (no pun intended).

I just restored ~3TB from it a couple months ago. Worked very smoothly and faster than the upload process. Each TB took about a day to download vs 1.5-2 weeks to upload

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

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Post by tedmiston »

adiabatty wrote: post #58

I have a 4 TB external USB hard drive split in two equal partitions. One is dedicated to Time Machine backups and the other has full-disk disk-image backups made by SuperDuper!. The partition with disk images on it also has installer files for programs that I can't redownload on a whim. Since I can only hold a few disk images on a 2 TB drive, I copy these disk images to a ProLiant MicroServer with a raidz3 (I've sinc…

> I also use Backblaze; it backs up everything on the iMac and the external drive.

Be careful with that external drive. Backblaze deletes external drive backups if you don't sync them every 30 days [1]. I've lodged frustrated complaints with them over data loss but that is their current policy.

[1]: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...

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

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Post by tedmiston »

hga wrote: post #43

Retired, so no need for work/personal separation, but I never did it before, but made sure that my company knew any work I did at home was going onto my general tape backups and was not going to be deleted any time soon after I left the company. Nowadays: most important stuff, rsync.net, more than a bit expensive at 20 cents/GB/month, but their many other virtues and especially simplicity make up for it, including su…

> Now that I've got a serious Internet connection, if I was starting over, and didn't have the sunk costs of the LTO-4 tape drive system (drive, SAS controller, fast disk to feed it) and plenty of tapes, I'd probably do this level of backup to the cloud at a fairly raw level to S3, Glacier, GCS, or Backblaze.

Personal warning to anyone else attempting to create a multi-drive setup with Backblaze. Backblaze deletes external drive backups if you don't sync them every 30 days [1]. I've lodged frustrated complaints with them over data loss but that is their current policy.

[1]: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...

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

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Post by tedmiston »

rosstex wrote: post #107
bahmboo wrote: post #106

Maybe this should be a separate ask HN: what restore solution worked best for you?

Backblaze. They ship you TB external hard drives with all your data for a fee, and refund the fee if you return the drives.

It would great if they would keep that level of convenience for external drives. Backblaze deleting external drive backups every 30 days [1] is maddening.

[1]: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...

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

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Post by tedmiston »

slantyyz wrote: post #41

A combination of a NAS, Crashplan (I may be switching to BackBlaze) and occasionally burning critical data to BluRay discs for cold storage. On my work desktop I also do incremental Acronis images and Windows File History on local drives.

I've used both Crashplan and Backblaze personally but found both pieces of software to be painfully resource intensive, particularly in CPU usage on a rMBP with good specs. (I should not be able to know your software is running by the slowness it causes me in the middle of development when I have it set on the "optimal" settings.)

IMO neither is really better than the other. I feel like a good complete remote personal backup solution for someone with multiple drives [1] doesn't exist today.

[1]: Read someone with an SSD MacBook and years of data accumulated from other machines that don't fit on the built-in SSD.

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

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Post by tedmiston »

aysfrm11 wrote: post #123

Cloudberry Backup (closed source, proprietary, 30USD) with Backblaze B2 (0.005/GB/month). Once it is setup it runs in the background and just does its thing. I just migrated from Cloudberry/Glacier to Cloudberry/B2 and dont see any reason for using Glacier any more. Data is locally encrypted.

Just curious to hear a little more about your choice of B2 over Glacier or S3. I haven't seen much written about it yet. Do retention policies work with B2?

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

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Post by sigjuice »

dbg31415 wrote: post #82

I use multiple Blackblaze accounts ( https://www.backblaze.com/ ). My requirements, and why I picked Blackblaze: 1) Work and personal data must be kept separate. (I use multiple Blackblaze accounts.) 2) Backups must be continuous and happen behind the scenes, I must never have to manually trigger a backup. 3) Must be able to restore not just a file, but a file on a specific date (Blackblaze keeps all changes for up t…

4) Must be secure, encrypted, and support 2FA.

Doesn't Backblaze require that you enter your password/keyphrase on their website to restore from an encrypted backup?

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