Zerker wrote:
I mean private files backup.
Sooner or later you probably gather some documents which require backup and maybe even encryption. I'm about to create some script to automate my backup process including synchronizing LUKS containers, but I wonder if you can recommend some open source software or good practices for private backups?
For encryption I recommend VeraCrypt which is a maintained fork of TrueCrypt.
Zerker wrote:
malmon wrote:
I personally use Duplicati 2 with a Google Drive backend. Not sure I would recommend it as of right now, as the software is still pretty unstable.
Idea of uploading backups incrementally seems nice to me.
Yuu wrote:
I learned to start with backups the hardway. My external hdd failed me recently... damn seagate strikes again.
I plan to build my own NAS device with a NAS Drive and maybe some sorta RAID. Maybe backup stuff there into encrypted containers and stuff. Depending on the content, I am thinking of doing extra cold storage backups online for stuff I won't touch for a long time. Recently saw Online.net new storage service, C14. Looks really cool: https://www.online.net/en/c14
But I honestly I have no real solid solution right now. Saving up money. But I plan to at least replace and get some more secondary disks just as maintaince. Also for most important stuff I keep it on different external hdds, devices and others. But maybe best is to memorize it :p
Do you have some specific setup for NAS on mind? I wonder how reliable would be Raspberry Pi with software RAID 1 from disks connected via USB hub. Throughput probably wouldn't be the best, but it's the cheapest home disk array with redundancy I can think of. I've also seen setups with Raspberry Pi and cheap hardware RAID controllers, but I have bad experience with this things - at least in server environment.
RX14 wrote:
For my laptop, i simply use syncthing to back it up to my home server. It's very good at traversing NAT. For my servers, I use backblaze b2, which is cheap enough to be competitive with cold storage yet is fairly instant, like s3.
I see that Syncthing has even protocol designed especially for synchronization. Concept of setting up your own distributed storage cluster caught my attention. It seems to be quite sophisticated under user interface - I will have to research it.
I used to use syncthing but got really turned off by it when it messed up my workflow since it would be syncing while I was editing a photoshop file and it almost ruined my .psd backups and current file I was working on. It saves multiple copies so i got to recover it but it was a hassle since all the copies were named randomnumber.tmp
Currently I have 2 1 TB hard drives, for all my stuff. a couple usb's for my important stuff (kept encrypted) and a server for off site backup of the important stuff
malmon wrote:
I personally use Duplicati 2 with a Google Drive backend. Not sure I would recommend it as of right now, as the software is still pretty unstable.
What's the benefit of Duplicati 2 over something like Syncthing?