Exploring restic for backing up my workstation (to local external volumes and probably "the cloud" too) at the suggestion of a friend. https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Maybe just in time, because...
[605358.398403] nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 131640760, 1024 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
[605358.398428] critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 131640760 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 88 prio class 2
Now I'm replacing the primary NVMe SSD tomorrow too...
On the positive side, the files reported unreadable were all various things under /work/xilinx/Vivado/2019.2/...
So, if I'm lucky I haven't lost anything important and Vivado has finally proved itself useful... as a 25GB ablative shield for the rest of my project data on that volume...
@swetland fwiw restic works for me, but would love an open source solution to eg 'let large static data end up in amazon glacier but keep indexes in s3'
@mikef Backblaze B2 looks to do storage for $6/TB/mo and I'm pretty sure everything I'd like to backup still comes out to less than 1 TB, so I think I'm going to give that a shot for offline backups, along with maybe swapping a SATA SSD with a friend every couple months.
@mikef Seems like consumer drives supposedly should be good for 1 year offline at 30C (worst case), and 5-10 years seems within the realm of possibility (for a drive in good condition).
I think as with anything "don't rely on a single backup" is probably the best policy (see also: "RAID is not a substitute for backups").
Not sure there are any great options for high capacity (100s of GBs or more) long term offline storage...
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