Since all the search engines have gone to shit, I'll resort to the old-fashioned way of finding information: Asking people.
So, what's the easiest, most foolproof way to do encrypted offsite #backups on #Linux?
I have a few TB at Hetzner, and a few personal laptops that need automated backups.
The whole thing needs to be fairly foolproof to run (because at least one kid is going abroad for a few months with their laptop), and foolproof to set up up (because it's me setting it up)
An interesting read, and I have to say I do lean more towards building your own. I did buy a bare-bones NAS by D-Link many years ago because you could add your own hard drives, but what I discovered after a few years was there were no more software ...continues
I briefly looked at AWS S3 Glacier storage, thinking maybe having a second cloud host for my backups would be good.
I can't actually figure out how much this will cost me because they charge per operation (you know, like PUT, GET, etc.) in addition to the storage costs (which I easily figured out).
Well, that was fun - thought I'd do a little filesystem cleansing and ended up accidentally (I did not check my work, tut tut tut) removed fedi VM ( I thought it was on a different disk, whoops!) - joy!
#Backups are available of course and restoring now. #Snac2 being the easiest to restore so that's back online first! I've lost today, but that's OK I've been pretty quiet!
Exploring restic for backing up my workstation (to local external volumes and probably "the cloud" too) at the suggestion of a friend. https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Maybe just in time, because...
[605358.398403] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 131640760, 1024 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[605358.398428] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 131640760 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 88 prio class 2
Now I'm replacing the primary NVMe SSD tomorrow too...
@mikef Seems like consumer drives supposedly should be good for 1 year offline at 30C (worst case), and 5-10 years seems within the realm of possibility (for a drive in good condition).
I think as with anything "don't rely on a single backup" is probably the best policy (see also: "RAID is not a substitute for backups").
Not sure there are any great options for high capacity (100s of GBs or more) long term offline storage...
I have long used backups that are monthly full backups, weekly full, and daily incremental (or sometimes also full if smallish). Yesterday I learned this is traditionally called the “Grandfather-Father-Son” scheme. This was a surprise, at least to me.
Seems a bit patriarchal and has nothing to do with backups. Is there a better name currently in use?
@outofcontrol I've never edited anything there, but I would have thought even moreso in today's world, that it'd be welcomed (there's been other changes too 9not sure about wikipedia specifically).. 'master' -> 'main' for git, 'master/slave' -> 'primary/secondary' for DB replication, etc). I would say with it being an open platform I personally wouldn't see an issue with it.. it's not changing any factualities.. I'd give it a shot and see 🙂
Anyone else use #rclone with #mega? Are your #backups working? Seems mine suddenly stopped on ~28th Feb. It is now failing to log in and hanging up my #RaspberryPi.
I've uninstalled Debian's stable version (V1.60.1+dfsg-2+b5) of rclone and installed from git (V1.66.0). Still having the issue. Tried removing all configs, tried with --debug and --verbose flags both show nothing other than trouble logging in.
I don't have 2FA enabled as it's unsupported on rclone.
Tools used are #restic and #rclone. All data is encrypted client side before being shipped to the cloud.
Comparing up-times, speeds (both down and up), and the correctness of the data stored. The last part was done using a VPS, and the data was found to be identical.
On speed (up and down) Jotta wins, Hetzner comes second, Mega fluctuates wildly.
On up-time Jotta and Hetzner tie, Mega went off-line for me at some points (worrysome)
On price Jotta also wins. Mega comes second, Hetzner last.
So I'll stick with Jotta. It's hosted in europe, it's fast, it's priced decently, support reacted fast when I asked some (noob) questions.