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Simple Minimal Backup Solution (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last night I was writing a script and it made a directory literally named "~" on accident. It being 3am I did an rm -rf ~ without thinking and destroyed my home dir. Luckily some of the files were mounted in docker containers which my user didn't have permission to delete. I was able to get back to an ok state but lost a bit of data.

I now realize I really should be making backups because shit happens. I self host a pypi repository, a docker registry both with containers and some game servers in and out of containers. What would be the simplest tool to backup to Google drive and easily restore?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Restic or Borg. For restic I use the great Backrest web GUI.

I mounted an USB drive to one of my OpenWRT access points and backup on that one.

Rclone or fuse can mount/access Google Drive and can be used as back end for your backup choice.

Simplest backup ever: restic/Borg on a folder on the same PC. Not very recommendable, but indeed a good starting point.

Zfs/brtfs seems a complex solution for a simple problem. True is that once you start eating you get hungrier so maybe worthwhile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

actually I was just looking for that! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

For those on the fence about Borg Backup because it's a command line app, FYI there's a great frontend GUI for it called Vorta (yeah, in line with the Trek theme lol) that works really well. I don't see it mentioned often, thought I'd pass that along. Might want to avoid the Flatpak version if you need to back up stuff outside your /home dir.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks for sharing about Backrest. I use Restic and Backrest looks like a great addition to it.