Just a dad with a sysadmin hobby … leaving reddit

  • 0 Posts
  • 54 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

help-circle
  • Restic, it has native S3 compatibility and when you combine with something like B2 it makes amazing offsite storage so you can enjoy the tried and true 3-2-1 backup strategy.

    Also fedora magazine did a few posts on setting it up with systemd that makes it SUPER EASY to get going if you need a guide.

    I have an ansible role that configures it on everyone’s laptops so that they have local, NAS, and remote, B2, backup locations.

    Works like a charm for the past 8+ years.












  • Waaaaay better.

    Restic allows you to make dedupe snapshots of your data. Everything is there and it’s damn hard to loose anything. I use backblaze b2 as my long term end point / offsite… some will use AWS glacier. But you don’t have to use any cloud services. You can just have a restic repository on some external drives. That’s what I use for my second copy of things. I also will do an annual backup to a hard disk that I leave with a friend for a second offsite copy.

    I’ve been backing up all of my stuff like this for years now. I used to use BORG which is another great tool. But restic is more flexible with allowing multiple systems to use a single repository and has native support for things like B2 that BORG doesn’t.

    We also use restic to backup control nodes for some of supercomputing clusters I manage. It’s that rock solid imho.