Post · Kakapo Social

Hello dear Fediversers,

My students want to improve their home lab backups and have come up with the idea of storing their offsite backups with each other instead of in the cloud.
My question is, does anyone know of any software or solutions for this? It doesn't have to be open source, but it would be best if it were. The option to encrypt the backups is not essential, but would be preferable.

Please boost.

Many thanks for any tips.

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@Jain@blob.cat replied · 4 days ago

@dalai @jwildeboer @kkarhan i would rather use syncthing than borg for such a setup

Dalai

@dalai@toots.ch replied · 4 days ago

@Jain @kkarhan @jwildeboer

Thanks for all the replies. I'm not sure with syncthing, as it's for synching. There are a lot of databases and i'm not sure if syncthing handels that ok. MariaDB, SQLDB, MongoDB and others.

And synching is not a backup. If the error is synct it's over.

Walter C. Smith

@stiefel_fan@troet.cafe replied · 4 days ago

@dalai @Jain @kkarhan @jwildeboer
OK, doing backups from databases change the whole approach. But even for these OpenSource DBs there should be tools to use for backing up the DB and for the redologs/transactionlogs (or however they are called with your DBs) to be archived periodically.
Ever thought of a NAS being implemented somewhere and available via safe connection for all? 🤔

Walter C. Smith

@stiefel_fan@troet.cafe replied · 4 days ago

@dalai @Jain @kkarhan @jwildeboer
Btw: What is the purpose of these offsite backups? Regular backup to use for any failure and being able to roll-forward to any time you want? Or just a fallback in case of desaster 😱 where you are happy to have some data back but not necessarily the most recent data, e. g. last week? 🤔
Sorry for the many questions, but makes it easier to respond. 🤷🏼‍♂️