I’m planning to set up proper backups for my server, but I’m not sure which software to use. I’ve looked for solutions with encryption, compressed, incremental backups. These seem to be the best options:
Does anyone have experience with these, and if so, what was your experience?
EDIT 2023-12-28:
It seems most people are using Restic of which about half mention using a wrapper such as resticprofiles, creatic and autorestic.
| Borg | Restic | Kopia |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 7 | 5 |
I tried Borg for a brief moment when I used the Nextcloud AiO Container and it has Borg Backup integrated into it.
But then I tried Kopia and sticked to it. I wanted a unified backup solution for all my systems (Linux + Windows) and Kopia is doing that. Also it has a nice Web Interface and GUI Client, so it´s usable even for the people not that tech-savvy.
My Homelab runs 2 Kopia Containers at the moment. The first one is here to backup all my compose files and the Docker volumes. The second one is backing up my NAS to a cloud storage. I can access these 2 via the Web GUI, which is very convenient. And when I need to restore something, I can mount the Repo and just restore what I need. To test my Homelab Backup, I spun up a Linux VM, installed Docker + Kopia CLI to restore everything and all my containers were up and running again.
On my Windows Systems I run Kopia GUI which can connect to multiple Repositories. So my Desktops backup up to my NAS and to a Cloud storage at the moment. So they run basically 2 Backup jobs (which only take a few minutes each when run once a week). But there is also a feature that a Kopia Repo Server syncs its Repo to another Repo, so this could have been a solution too. That way your system creates a Backup only once and Kopia takes care of synchronizing the existing Repo to an additional place.