I’m particularly interested in low bandwidth solutions. My connection to the internet is pretty rough 20mbps down and 1mbps up with no option to upgrade.
That said, this isn’t limited to low bandwidth solutions.
I’m planning on redoing my entire setup soon to run on Kubernetes followed by expanding the scope of what my server does (Currently plex, a sftp server and local client backups). Before i do that i need a proper offsite backup solution.
My setup is running in k8s.
I have autorestic running in a container in a pod. The container mounts the volumes from the pod, I want to have backed up. It then runs every 6 hours(easily changed via a cron expression).
The config in autorestic describes the backends(servers), that it should backup to. Currently I have 3 servers, that it is backing everything up to.
I have also added extra functionallity to autorestic, to make it create a dump of a database before the backup runs.
Same… Backup every night with ntfy.sh push if successfully or failed (never failed)
Need restore some times because docker containers run in latest state and sometimes they deployed faulty versions like wallabag atm.
Not my solution, but I liked an idea and thinking to use it too - copy backups on external HDD and put it into your car trunk. Maybe have two drives in rotation.
It eliminates a need to drive somewhere for rotation, and any cost of renting a safebox.
Doesn’t protect from a serious disaster like forest fire or earthquake or nuclear war, but I keep the most important data in cloud, and if my house and car burns I would be having other problems than worrying about some homelab snapshots.
Very neat idea, but I’d explicitly add strong encryption to that method, cars do get broken into.
I’d encrypt every off-site backup, but a car is a bit more exposed than a rented safe box.
