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Unraid to Backblaze (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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For those of you running Unraid and backing up their data to Backblaze, how are you doing it?

I’ve been playing a bit with KopiaUI but what is the easiest and most straight forward way?

Bonus points if I can have the same “client/software/utility” backup data from non-servers (Windows, macOS and Linux) in my network to said Unraid server.

I don’t want to complicate the setup with a bunch of dependencies and things that would make the recovery process long and tedious or require in-depth knowledge to use it for the recovery process.

To recap:

Workstations/laptop > back up data with what? > Unraid

Unraid > back up data with what? > Backblaze

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm a big fan of duplicati. You can install it on Linux, windows, (not sure about mac) and use it to send backups anywhere. Backup to your nas, to s3, smb share, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’ve mostly stayed away from duplicati because of the “horror stories” around restore operations. Quotes because sometimes people exaggerate but other times they are legitimate concerns/bad experiences.

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

That's fair, we should all test our backups from time to time. I haven't had any issues over the years with it though i've never had to rely on it for a full restore.

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

@lal309 @Limit I tried duplicati but now use #restic -

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've generally had a positive experience with duplicati to backup unraid to backblaze. Recently had time to test my encrypted backup, and had no problem restoring it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I use it to send backups to backblaze b2 also, it works very well for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm partial to duplicacy, not to be confused with duplicati. Has worked great for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

+1 to rclone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

UPDATE: Decide to give rclone a try and try to automate it all through scripts. So far I the rclone script checking for errors, logging to a file and sending discord notifications.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I use Syncthing on all my endpoints Windows and Linux (can't speak for Mac) to sync to my TrueNAS server. It has a built in tool to just back up to backblaze on a certain schedule.

I know you can use Syncthing with unraid in Docker. I have it set up so sync all endpoints to my server and then the server pushes the latest changes back to all the endpoints. This is overly redundant and you don't have to do it that way but all endpoints and my server would have to die at the same time before I lost any data. It's sort of a backup scheme in and on itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, this question might just reveal my ignorance, but what is the advantage of using all these programs over just using rsync? Yes, I am old and simple, but I'd love to know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For starters: encryption at rest, block-level deduplication across backups, cloud storage, database support, container support, etc etc.

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

Thanks, I'll look into those.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I use nextcloud to sync files from PC/phone to server and then Kopia CLI for daily backup to backblaze (also 2nd local backup). I start kopia web server for easier restore, but luckily I never had to do a real restore, only testing backups

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

At the moment I use https://github.com/JonathanTreffler/backblaze-personal-wine-container

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

I’ve been using Kopia and I like it.