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hi how do yall do backups

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@ezri ZFS auto-snapshots, sending them to a local copy whenever i, uh, feel like doing so

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@ezri daily restic backups uploading to object storage

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@charlotte nice that's about the direction i was thinking too

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@ezri personally borg-backup to a commercial backup provider (borgbase. not sponsored. if you have a server somewhere then you can backup to that)

it works fine, it handles "you changed a few bytes in a large file" fine, and i've been using it for A While now(5? years)

though restic is also not a bad choice and is largely the same, and can also backup to s3 or similar. borg largely requires an active borg server, afaik

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@5225225 @ezri yeah the server model has pros and cons although idk how the borg server works exactly

the con is that ofc you need a special server to host it but the pro is that if a machine is compromised for some reason they can’t destroy the backups as easily

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@charlotte @ezri wondering if s3 has a "create files only, not modify or delete them" permission

in principle you could do the same with a nonspecific server if you had that

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@5225225 @ezri it’s also an option for restic i might add, and i’m sure other similar backup solution

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@5225225 @ezri there is regulatory hold and file locking on amazon s3, whether other s3 providers have it depends

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@ezri I built an open source software that automatically backs up directories you define and packages them into an archive. Then either copies the archive to a different location or uploads them to a server via SMB or SFTP.
In case you’re interested: https://github.com/lilith-roth/yrba

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@lily_squeaks oh thats cool!!

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