I backup my files via rsync then have some essentially docker containers backed up and running in case the first one goes down :)

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    My backups. Shouldn’t really put anything else on them, now should you?

  • beerclue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    My backup concept is on the to-do list. Been there for a couple years. I do have triple pihole/caddy/haproxy/redis for high availability on a triple node proxmox cluster! necessary? no. cool, though? heck yeah! friends and family impressed? uhm… what was the question?

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      If you’re using proxmox, just install PBS somewhere else and configure a schedule. It’s pretty quick to configure.

      • beerclue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I know about pbs, I even have an IP set aside for it :) I do have the built-in proxmox backup function take nightly snapshots or my important vms to my nas, but I don’t have anything really put together. Also, nothing for my nas itself. It is configured in a raid 5, but as we all know, raid is not backup :)

        One day, after I am done with [insert reason here], I will have a bad ass, well thought out backup solution.

        • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          One day, after I am done with -insert reason here-, I will have a bad ass, well thought out backup solution.

          For some reason you’re “insert reason here” was dropped by lemmy. I guess a sequential less-than/greater-than messes with it.

  • tritonium@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    A copy of data isn’t really a backup, that’s also why RAID isn’t a backup. You should have proper backups with something like borg or restic.

      • tritonium@midwest.socialEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        You do realize that it actually does a lot more than that right which is what makes it a proper backup system, right? If all it did was sync a copy of data then it wouldn’t be a proper backup. As I already pointed out, so let me know if I need to slow it down further for you.

          • tritonium@midwest.socialEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            A synced copy of data doesn’t protect against accidental file deletions… that is why RAID isn’t a backup, that is why snapRAID isn’t a backup, that is why syncthing is not a backup, that is why any kind of synced copy is not a backup. Let me know if you’re still struggling with this VERY basic concept… that has had it’s own little phrase parroted for decades, “RAID is not a backup.”

            • thagoat@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Well thank you, but you haven’t tried to explain any of this VERY basic concept you speak of, you’ve just told me that RAID isn’t backup. No one but you brought up RAID.

              Nice try, son. Now, stick to mansplaining something you actually understand and can articulate.

              • tritonium@midwest.socialEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                Because it’s an extremely common phrase that I figured most people here understood, sorry for over-estimating you.

  • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.ukEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have some scripts that use restic to backup to locally connected USB drives weekly.

    The USB drives are connected to smart plugs that I control via home assistant and some webhooks. So the drives are off and stay off when not in use for the backup. I also don’t turn them both on at the same time.

    I bought an Odroid HC2 years ago with the intent to have it connect over wireguard and mount to the NAS VM. Then I could put it in a friends house and use it as an offsite backup.

    I also sometimes backup to backblaze

  • K3CAN@lemmy.radioEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Host? As in running services?

    Wireguard and the Proxmox Backup Server software itself. Redundancy/failover comes from the server cluster itself, not my backup server.

    As far as the backup content, it “hosts” backup images of my VMs and LXCs, plus /home from my laptop in case it ever gets lost or damaged.

  • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Lot of people confusing a redundancy with backups. My backup server is currently doing its part providing main services due to a bad RAM stick causing all sorts of chaos before I figured out it was the root cause.

    I normally have all my dockers backed up and not running but ready to startvon the second server. Most of my data is from sailing the seas and so it can be restored by the ARR stack fairly well. I do backup a few key things like my PGP keys and keepass but the chances of all 5+ of the systems I’m actively using failing all at once is pretty minimal.