Always used Seafile to backup all of my electronics. Then borgmatic and borgbase as my only remote backup for my entire server. Local backup on another drive every now and then.
Have been having trouble fixing up the latest version of Seafile in docker and I’ve gotten too busy to deal with it over and over.
And now I only have to deal with my own backup data. So Seafile isn’t so useful anymore.
Looking for information on other home server data backup flows.
At most 500Gb of usage is what I expect to idle around. Need integrity checks, best speeds and reputable service. The works, I know.
Looking for same annual pricing as borgbase (~80USD) or better of course.
Here are a couple I found:
- Filen
- Jottacloud
- some Hetzner storage or something
Definetly need a CLI tool with syncing. Or some method for client side encryption backups.
Thoughts? Thanks in advance.
If you have already borg, why don’t use it?
I simply use a shell script that rsync my files to the backup server. Runs daily as a cronjob at 01:00 am.
Same same but different. My backup server pulls my files with rsync.
I’m not sure I fully grasp what you want, but Restic is excellent. I use a cronjob to back up on a schedule. It’s command line only. I think there’s a tool to make it a GUI but I haven’t tried it. They have a Docker image available but it’s weird, you have to pass commands to it, it runs, then shuts down when it’s done. I love Docker but that didn’t quite work for me.
I use Backblaze B2 for storage, but any S3 will do. Restic supports all sorts of storage targets.
Credentials and things go in an .env file, or you can put everything into the command line every time.
When it’s time to restore things, you can fricken mount the whole backup you want and browse the files, copy and paste what you need, etc. That part is really cool to me.
Backblaze is $5 or $6 USD per TB per month, so 500GB will be about $36USD a year.
I use Kopia to perform incremental encrypted backups (with some retention policy of up to two years) and store them on Backblaze B2, which is reasonably cheap.
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I really like duplicacy. It’s just a single executable you add to your path, then configure it to back up to basically any remote you want. I don’t even bother to run it in a container since it doesn’t have dependencies. Encrypted, compressed, deduplicated, incremental backups. The algorithm is pretty slick too. It can back up multiple machines to the same repository, and it’ll dedupe across them without any locks required.
Duplicacy CLI is free, and there’s a front-end for a reasonable fee. I think $50 for the first year, then $10 for every subsequent year.
For storage, you can just go with whatever is cheapest/easiest. I use a gdrive I’m paying for regardless for effectively free storage. But if I didn’t have that, Hetzner seems very appealing. I think it’s $4/mo for 1TB? Very reasonable, and you wouldn’t need to worry about api calls or chunk size / file count like you would with S3/B2/StorJ.
+1 for Duplicacy (the GUI, as a container). Very worth it, IMO. Not only do I use it for my PC, I back up my server to my other server in another state with it. I also use it with Backblaze B2 (for very important files) which is slightly more than Hetzner ($6/TB). I haven’t run into any chunking issues and they don’t charge for API calls. Highly recommendated.
