What is you backup tool of choice?

Choctaw, 10 months ago

Syncthing. I rotate different Linux operating systems daily, but all my data is synced with Syncthing between all my machines, smartphone and a server. Kind of like Chrome OS in that I can wipe or reinstall the OS and be instantly back up and running, or even install a new version of Linux to try out.

sneakyninjapants, 10 months ago

Kopia repo on a separate disk dedicated to backups. Have Kopia on my servers as well sending to my local s3 gateway and second copy to wasabi.

dismalnow, 10 months ago

Wholly off topic.

I feel like you should know about this if you don't already.

sneakyninjapants, 10 months ago

Not trying to out myself, but I may be one of the few people that actually owned that shirt lol

dismalnow, 10 months ago

YOU CANNOT DOXX WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE.

I may have one on now.

kholdstare, 10 months ago

I used to be mostly restic but I’ve since moved over to Kopia - having the central server on the nas and shipping those files to B2 is easy enough for my level of laziness.

Makussu, 10 months ago

This is my setup

ElectronBadger, 10 months ago

rsync (laptop -> external HDD, workstation -> dedicated backup HDD)
Syncthing (laptop <-> desktop)

amadeus, 10 months ago

I use Pika and Timeshift.

UdeRecife, 10 months ago

Vorta (Borg GUI). It’s simple to use.

pythia, 10 months ago

i simply use freefilesync

all64bits, 10 months ago

Duplicacy

Pussyphobic, 10 months ago

Borg backup (via Pika Backup (Libadwaita gnome app) frontend) to one of my physical drive and also to borgbase.com (free tier 10 gb free)

understandable, 10 months ago

Restic (local repo) which I sync onto a Hetzner Storagebox using rclone.

wreiner, 10 months ago

Borg backup

tio, 10 months ago

@dustyData I have hundreds of thousands of files that need to be backed up locally and in the cloud. I use either Vorta or Pika. Both are interfaces for Borg. Easy to use and their deduplication feature manages to save a lot of diskspace. I tried so many backup solutions and none worked as reliably.

denissimo, 10 months ago

Syncthing. I don’t want to invest into a NAS and put some load into my already greedy power bill, so I chose something decentralized. Syncthing really just works like Torrent but for your personal files: Whatever happens on the computer, also does on the phone, and on the laptop. Each have about 1TB of space and 3 times redundancy? Hell yea buddy dig in.

nis, 10 months ago

But that’s not really backup, is it? It just synchronizes folders.

denissimo, 10 months ago

Yes but it is a automated backup solution if you want it to. I just put important stuff in the Syncthing folder and rest assured its also on the phone incase the computers SSD caughs fire.

nis, 10 months ago

I think you are confusing synchronizing with backup. If you delete a file in your Syncthing folder and the deletion gets synchronized, that file is lost. If you do the same in a folder backed up by, say, Borg, you can roll back the deletion and restore the file.

I may be wrong about Syncthing, though. I haven’t used it yet, but will probably use it in the future. Just not for backup :)

denissimo, 10 months ago

This is true if you leave it at defaults but I make use of file versioning. When you flick that one on, files that are otherwise replaced or deleted will actually move to a offline .stversions folder. That is very vital I must say in case a host catches some encryptor malware eheh

nis, 10 months ago

I didn’t know that was a possibility. Still, it seem kind of not really what Syncthing is intended for. I mean, they even state it in their FAQ:

No. Syncthing is not a great backup application because all changes to your files (modifications, deletions, etc.) will be propagated to all your devices. You can enable versioning, but we encourage you to use other tools to keep your data safe from your (or our) mistakes.

fantasy95, 10 months ago

I just found out about syncthing yesterday and it really is superb, it’s so easy to use even crossplatform. unison is another syncing tool that I like, I find it better for bidirectional syncing

kutsyk_alexander, 10 months ago

I use Raspberry Pi 4 with connected external HDD and installed Nextcloud

rikudou, 10 months ago

Git for projects, NAS for 3D printing stuff, mods for games and unofficial game translations, Google Photos for photos (looking to migrate away from that when I have time). I don’t much care about anything else.

ErwinLottemann, 10 months ago

Git as backup?! Ok…

bellsDoSing, 10 months ago

Git for projects

I assume the original comment meant code based projects, for which git, if repo is pushed to a remote, is a very sane choice.

andruid, 10 months ago

Yeah, git without LFS isn’t optimal for non-text files.

rikudou, 10 months ago

Yep, that’s what I meant. If it’s a public project, it’s on my GitHub, if it’s a private one, it’s on my private GitLab instance.

BaconIsAVeg, 10 months ago

Meaning that as long as you’re regularly committing your work to Github/Gitlab/wherever, you don’t need to backup your source directory.