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Backups Aren't Simple

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Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by zenoprax »

ebrahimh wrote: post #23

I’m setting up 3-2-1-ish backups for my infra of 3 hosts, and definitely leaning towards Restic + Backrest. All my hosts run the same CoreOS setup ( https://github.com/ebrahim37/infra-template ), where container volumes are placed in one central volumes/ folder and that is the only thing I have to backup. I plan to implement it like this: vps1: - restic container with custom sh entrypoint that will backup volumes/ to…

I've been trying to find a solution for this too! I was considering using Rclone but too many things are using SQLite for me to trust rsync. I was also going to go with CoreOS but I'm leaning towards Fedora Cloud now in case I need to manage things a bit more (and "auto updating" is not something I want as that suggests auto rebooting).

Your secrets.yaml makes me nervous though - too easy to miss a key and leave something exposed. Why not just add the whole file to the vault?

Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by Gigachad »

toast0 wrote: post #71
jimmaswell wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would often not have wifi available, and you wouldn't want to have to type in wifi passwords to your camera all the time. But your phone will almost always be nearby and persistent bluetooth is easy.

Wifi between your camera and the phone. Or your camera and a laptop in your bag or whatever...

Problem is they have to disconnect from the current wifi ap to connect to the cameras ap which is inconvenient and means there can’t be a constant connection.

Wifi NAN could be used to solve this problem but I’ve not seen anything using it. Apple only just added support last year though.

Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by Gigachad »

flippingheck wrote: post #96

> There are two types of people: those who have suffered a catastrophic loss of data, and those who will. This is an empirical claim, but is it grounded in reality? 99% of people don't backup, and that's probably the right choice because the risk is low, they can't meaningfully improve their restoration rate themselves and they don't care enough about their data to classify its loss as catastrophic. When a person hea…

It’s because they all use cloud services these days which the tech companies manage backups for them. The only risk is getting locked out or banned which is far less common than hard drive failures or malware back in the day.

It’s still vitally important if you are self hosting your data.

Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by cuvert »

For my small library photos, keepass passwords, etc around 30gb, I use syncthing, which will backup on my pc, on my parents pc (they live in another country), on my sisters pc and on my phone. They also use this triangular mode to backup their stuff. Syncthing is setup to only sync through tailscale or home routers network.

Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by Oxodao »

cuvert wrote: post #134

For my small library photos, keepass passwords, etc around 30gb, I use syncthing, which will backup on my pc, on my parents pc (they live in another country), on my sisters pc and on my phone. They also use this triangular mode to backup their stuff. Syncthing is setup to only sync through tailscale or home routers network.

sync is not backup

Also why you sync through LAN only?

Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by iririririr »

podocarp wrote: post #74
dsego wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also have the same fuji. Digital cameras are still in the stone ages. I think Tony Northrup covered it well. Nothing has changed since digital cameras came to market, the workflow is still the same, copy files from a card to PC. They aren't connected to the internet, they don't have automatic syncing to cloud for backups or sharing, fuji doesn't even have a gps chip built in to store the location (only works if con…

In some senses it's good. That feature list just says "use a smartphone then". No thank you. It's everything that a camera should not be. GPS is useful, but not wifi. I don't need my camera becoming another IOT always online telemetry device. They're one of the few electronic devices built to last. Imagine needing fingerprint unlock on a camera, and for what? Prevent others from viewing your photos? Changing your set…

why do you assume a functionality will obligatory be abused against the client?

pro camera manufacturers are not google or apple. Have we became that defeatist?

Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by Aldipower »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #83

I really like ZFS snapshots with offsite pull-mode sync using Jim Salter's sanoid/syncoid [1]. ZFS is the base for all OS/filesystems on top of it. If you have a good system for organizing ZFS datasets, and separating ephemeral from persistent data (e.g. [2]), then this is 90% of the backup requirements already fullfilled. [1]: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid [2]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2026-05-16_rootless_d…

Using this in production for 5 years now. We have a replicated MongoDB and one replica lives on a ZFS doing snapshot backups via syncoid. Love it.

Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by cm2187 »

cuvert wrote: post #134

For my small library photos, keepass passwords, etc around 30gb, I use syncthing, which will backup on my pc, on my parents pc (they live in another country), on my sisters pc and on my phone. They also use this triangular mode to backup their stuff. Syncthing is setup to only sync through tailscale or home routers network.

So you delete a file by mistake and it replicates within seconds? Not exactly a backup. And a malware will do that to all of your files.

Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by mrheosuper »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #109
mrheosuper wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bluetooth is slow. The transport is 3Mbps at max, if you subtract all the headers from different layers, you may have like 1.5-2Mbps practical transfer speed.

Sounds like the "or such" wins, but even with bluetooth speeds that means you're backing up 1-5 photos per minute and that helps a lot.

And harm a lot too, you phone can't deep sleep since it has to wake up periodically to process data from bluetooth stack. Combined with slow transfer speed, that gonna eat your battery like nothing.

Re: Backups Aren't Simple

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Post by mrheosuper »

Gigachad wrote: post #130
dsego wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also have the same fuji. Digital cameras are still in the stone ages. I think Tony Northrup covered it well. Nothing has changed since digital cameras came to market, the workflow is still the same, copy files from a card to PC. They aren't connected to the internet, they don't have automatic syncing to cloud for backups or sharing, fuji doesn't even have a gps chip built in to store the location (only works if con…

Cameras had gps for a moment but they all dropped it because it sucks. GPS takes a long time to get a fix so unless you want to turn the camera on and sit for 5 minutes before taking the photo, it doesn’t work. Meanwhile an app on your phone can ping the current location to the camera for free. Your phone always has a location lock and it’s super power efficient at getting it. And the rest of it is essentially featur…

> People buying cameras today don’t want to send straight to Facebook.

Pretty sure that's the main point of Fuji camera, the output and built it filter is decent enough that you can upload to Social network without any editing.

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