For Desktop Backups, I think backblaze.com should do the Job.
Desktops not running linux.
They now offer B2, which is really awesome.
Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
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Re: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
#52http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
Duplicati is newer and better.
Re: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
#53http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
Duplicati is newer and better.
Been using this for a while now, seems to work great https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati
The features I like is * Encrypted cloud backup * Blockbased backup (only backup changes) * Restore files from a certain day
Re: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate how Arq is buggy? I'm considering switching to Arq from Crashplan, because I supply my own storage for it anyway.
I have had to restore a backup once, so I restored the most recent version, which was restoring an old version of the file. I ended up frantically restoring all the different versions of the backups, and one of them was the most recent version. But it was considered an old version by Arq, I'm not sure precisely which one, but it definitely wasn't in the top 3 most recent ones. And more recently I made a backup to gla…
Crashplan worked well for me, sometimes I have to restore a file that I overwrite or that ends up being corrupted because of buggy (in-house) software and I never had any problems with that.
My main issue is that I went with free plan + my own server because transfers to their servers were really bad. But to supply your own storage, you have to install Crashplan on the server, which uses significant amount of RAM. So this rules out backuping to my NAS (not enough memory there, even though it's x86 and technically people ran Java on it).
The other issue is that file format is (AFAIK) closed, and also you an account and connection to Crashplan service, so I'm not completely sure that you really own the data. I didn't do much research here, though.
Re: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
#55I use borg[0] to create local space efficient encrypted backups and rclone[1] to mirror the archives to Google Drive. I wrote a short script to automate it and schedule it to run every night. [0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ [1] https://rclone.org
You don't have the Google drive app installed anywhere?
If you do, this setup doesn't help recovery after a cryptolocker. The encrypted backup would also be unusable.
Re: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it's quite expensive compared to other solutions.
It really isn't. I mean it looks expensive, until you take into account all the dedup and everything it does to reduce the cost. I put in $10 dollars a few years ago, I still have almost a $4 balance ($3.91).
Well I guess it depends on what you store. I am backing up 1.5 terabyte of photos and videos which can't be compressed or dedup that much so in this case it would be more expensive that many other solutions.
Re: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
#57I quite like Crashplan:
- very reasonably priced: I pay around £10 pcm for unltd storage for my whole family
- zero-knowledge encryption: I have the encryption keys, and everything is encrypted on my machine before its sent up
- relatively low bandwidth: only ships changed files (pretty standard tbh)
It's saved my bacon a few times, e.g. I've used it to rescue my sister's dissertation when she wiped her laptop thinking it was in Dropbox when it wasn't. I was amazed by how easy it was for me to rescue the file from the archive.
Re: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
#58I quite like Crashplan: - very reasonably priced: I pay around £10 pcm for unltd storage for my whole family - zero-knowledge encryption: I have the encryption keys, and everything is encrypted on my machine before its sent up - relatively low bandwidth: only ships changed files (pretty standard tbh) It's saved my bacon a few times, e.g. I've used it to rescue my sister's dissertation when she wiped her laptop thinki…
I used crash plan on Linux for years, but stopped because their Java client is a train wreck.
It would consume gigabytes of RAM and every year or so it'd meltdown when trying to install an update without using the system package manager.
Re: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
#59Just stick it all in Google Drive, pay the $2/mo for 100GB or $10/mo for 1TB, done. It stores the last 100 versions of each file so ransomware shouldn't be a problem, although apparently there's no way to restore a folder at a time, you'd need to do it individually for each file...
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Re: Ask HN: Secure automated backup?
#60I use Arq ( https://www.arqbackup.com ) with Amazon Drive (unlimited data for $60/year) for this
I also use Arq but send to rsync.net with reduced pricing ( http://rsync.net/products/attic.html ) in addition to SFTPing to a personal (offsite) server. Additionally, I run Backblaze and use Carbon Copy Cloner roughly once a week back to clone my entire drive to an external drive. For personal servers I use borg with the same reduced rsync.net pricing.
rsync.net is fantastic.
You don't get the read-only snapshots with the reduced borg or attic accounts though (they expect you to manage all increments using those programs).
If you are prepared to pay the standard rate, the read-only snapshots can't be destroyed by any hacker or ransomware.