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Do something simpler. Backups shouldn’t be complex. This should be simpler still: https://github.com/nathants/backup
Uh, who has the money to store backups in AWS?!
Google Cloud Store Archive Tier is a tiny bit more.
Do something simpler. Backups shouldn’t be complex. This should be simpler still: https://github.com/nathants/backup
Uh, who has the money to store backups in AWS?!
Borg vs Restic vs Kopia ? They are so similar in features. How do they compare? Which to choose?
Restic is the winner. It talks directly to many backends, is a static binary (so you can drop the executable in operating systems which don’t allow package installation like a NAS OS) and has a clean CLI. Kopia is a bit newer and less tested. All three have a lot of commands to work with repositories. Each one of them is much better than closed source proprietary backup software that I have dealt with, like Synology…
> If you want a better solution, the next level is ZFS.
Not a backup. Not a bad choice for storage for backup server tho
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Uh, who has the money to store backups in AWS?!
Glacier Deep Archive is the cheapest cloud backup option at $1USD/month/TB. Google Cloud Store Archive Tier is a tiny bit more.
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I am already using zfs on my NAS where I want my backups to be. But I didn't consider it for backups till now
You can consider something like syncthing to get the important files onto your NAS, and then use ZFS snapshots and replication via syncoid/sanoid to do the actual backing up.
With ZFS, all file system is replicated. The backup will be consistent, which is not the case with file level backup. With latter, you have to also worry about lock files, permissions, etc. The restore will be more natural and quick with ZFS.
Is that a big deal? You should probably be doing this with zfs immutable snapshots anyway. Or equivalent feature for your filesystem.
There's not much sense in using these advanced backup tools if you're already on ZFS, even if it's just on the backup server, I would stick with something simpler. Their whole point is in reliable checksums, incremental backups, deduplication, snapshotting on top of a 'simple' classical filesystem. Sounds familiar to any ZFS user?