What do you host on your backup servers?
from ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 23:09
https://lemmy.selfhostcat.com/post/5793

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

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lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org on 06 Jan 23:46 next collapse

…backup servers? 👀

cybersandwich@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 23:53 collapse

Ohhh, look at Mr. Fancy Pants over here with his backup servers! What, ya scared the internet’s gonna go poof and you won’t be able to access your little spreadsheets? ‘Oh no, my cat memes are in danger!’

Listen, buddy, some of us are just out here raw-doggin’ the web like real men. What’s next, you gonna put a generator in your bathroom in case the toilet paper dispenser fails? Fuggedaboutit!

lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org on 07 Jan 14:30 next collapse

You made me snort what fortunately was only tea and not a carbonated drink! XD

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe on 08 Jan 01:19 collapse

“raw dogging the Internet”… I chuckled out loud

catloaf@lemm.ee on 06 Jan 23:53 next collapse

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

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 00:20 next collapse

I have 2 terabyte hard drives that get backed up when I remember.

beerclue@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 00:28 next collapse

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.ee on 07 Jan 01:00 collapse

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

beerclue@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 07:36 collapse

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.cafe on 08 Jan 01:18 collapse

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.

beerclue@lemmy.world on 08 Jan 02:17 collapse

:| gosh… I’ll go back to edit it.

miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 07 Jan 00:40 next collapse

I backup my backup servers to my production machines.

Circular redundancy, ftw!

whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 02:33 next collapse

First I laughed, but now I’m seeing the genius.

bhamlin@lemmy.world on 08 Jan 12:44 collapse

If everything is backups, everything is production. Truly a galaxy brain solution.

wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 20:02 collapse

It’s constantly-buying-additional-hard-drives-for-balooning-storage all the way down!

rutrum@lm.paradisus.day on 07 Jan 01:47 next collapse

I’ve got a subset of my files encrypted and backed up using borg. It gets backed up to another computer in my home and then cloud storage via borgbase.com.

pezhore@infosec.pub on 07 Jan 01:51 next collapse

Restic to Wasabi S3.

blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk on 07 Jan 08:00 next collapse

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

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 07 Jan 12:46 next collapse

My backupserver is a VM.
The host also has VMs for Homeassistant, an MS AD DC based on Windows 2022,

K3can@lemmy.radio on 07 Jan 14:54 next collapse

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.

tux0r@feddit.org on 07 Jan 15:47 next collapse

My backup server is the only one of my servers that is located outside Germany. You know, in case the British come again. Or the data centre of my other servers burns down. Or something like that.

Every night, this server receives a (compressed, incremental) backup of the most important data (content and configuration files) from each of my other servers, which I created with Borg.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 08 Jan 16:40 next collapse

Is it a VPS? Or do you have a physical server in another country?

tux0r@feddit.org on 08 Jan 17:56 collapse

Both, somewhat. It is a virtual root server. I’m still considering to consolidate - at least - my OpenBSD servers into one, but I’m lazy.

ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com on 09 Jan 04:02 collapse

VPS or personally setup?

tux0r@feddit.org on 09 Jan 10:37 collapse

What would be a “not personally setup”?

ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com on 09 Jan 11:41 collapse

VPS

tux0r@feddit.org on 09 Jan 12:48 collapse

Well, VPS then.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 07 Jan 16:11 next collapse

Backblaze b2

snugglebutt@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Jan 16:41 next collapse

backups usually :3c

HurlingDurling@lemmy.world on 08 Jan 00:03 next collapse

Backups?

tritonium@midwest.social on 08 Jan 04:07 next collapse

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.

thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org on 09 Jan 01:04 collapse

You do realize that what borg and restic do is make copies of your data, right?

kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jan 11:33 next collapse

In such a way that it checks the integrity of the files. Which a normal copy paste does not do. Rsync does this as well bdw.

thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org on 10 Jan 01:00 next collapse

None of those programs verifies integrity. Borg deduplicates, and optionally encrypts data. Restic is a front end for rsync, which only offers incremental back up. Meaning, restic/rsync compares your source and destination directories, and if the data are identical it does nothing, but if there are any changes it will upload only that changed data. None of the apps care what the data are, you can backup gibberish and they will happily put it another place for you.

Asparagus0098@sh.itjust.works on 11 Jan 09:23 collapse

I think you have a misunderstanding. Restic and Borg checks the integrity of the backup repository and not the files being backed up.

tritonium@midwest.social on 12 Jan 03:44 collapse

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.

thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org on 12 Jan 05:28 collapse

Yes, please. Slow it down for me. I’d love to hear this.

HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee on 08 Jan 13:09 collapse

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.