I just got my home server up and running and was wondering what you guys recommend for backups. I figure it will probably be worth having backups on cloud servers tjay are external, are there any good services yall use for that?
You must log in or register to comment.
I use Restic + Resticprofile to back up everything and store it on my local HDD.
Then, I use Rclone to sync the local repository to Backblaze B2.
Here’s my general setup:
/.config/restic/ ├── logs │ ├── statuses │ │ ├── restic-status-20230202T020202.json │ │ └── restic-status-20230101T010101.json │ ├── restic-check-20230202T020202.log │ └── restic-backup-20230101T010101.log ├── config │ ├── profiles.yaml │ ├── excludes.txt │ ├── rclone.conf │ └── password.txt ├── bin │ ├── restic_0.15.2_linux_arm64 │ ├── rclone_1.63.1_linux_arm64 │ └── resticprofile_0.22.0_linux_arm64
version: "1" # Schedules (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html#Calendar%20Events) {{ $SCHEDULE_RESTIC_BACKUP := "*-*-* 22:00:00" }} # Daily at 10PM {{ $SCHEDULE_RESTIC_CHECK := "Sat *-*-* 04:00:00" }} # Weekly at 4AM on Saturday {{ $SCHEDULE_SYNC_BACKUP := "Sun *-*-* 21:30:00" }} # Weekly at 11.30PM on Sunday {{ $SCHEDULE_POSTGRES_BACKUP := "Fri *-*-* 20:00:00" }} # Weekly at 8PM on Friday # Directories {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BINARY := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/bin/restic_0.15.2_linux_arm64" }} {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_REPO := "/home/deck/Desktop/restic-repo" }} {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/logs" }} {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_STATUS := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/logs/statuses" }} {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BLOCKED_FILE := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/BLOCKED" }} {{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_BINARY := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/bin/rclone_1.63.1_linux_arm64" }} {{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_REPO := "bucket:restic-backup-12345" }} {{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_CONFIG := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/config/rclone.conf" }} {{ $LOCATION_RESTICPROFILE_LOCK := "/tmp/resticprofile-default.lock" }} {{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP := "/home/deck/Desktop/dumps" }} {{ $LOCATION_PRIMARY_BACKUP_SOURCE := "/home/deck/Desktop/" }} # Configs {{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME := .Now.Format "20060102T150405" }} {{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_PASSWORD := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/config/password.txt" }} {{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_EXCLUDE := "/home/deck/Desktop/.config/restic/excludes.txt" }} global: default-command: snapshots # Run 'snapshots' when no command is specified initialize: false # Do not initialize a repository if none exists priority: low # Use priority class on Windows and "nice" on Unixes min-memory: 100 # Minimum required RAM for Resticprofile to start restic-lock-retry-after: 5m # Retry failed restic command acquisition every 5 minutes restic-stale-lock-age: 10h # Unlock stale lock if age exceeds 10 hours restic-binary: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BINARY }}' # Location of the Restic binary default: lock: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTICPROFILE_LOCK }}' # Local lockfile to prevent concurrent profile runs force-inactive-lock: true # Detect and remove stale locks initialize: true # Initialize repository if it doesn't exist repository: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_REPO }}' # Path to Restic repository password-file: '{{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_PASSWORD }}' # File containing repository password status-file: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_STATUS }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-restic-status.json' # Output status file compression: 'max' # Maximum compression level run-after-fail: # Block syncing if there was a failure. TODO: Add an email - 'echo "The command ${PROFILE_COMMAND} has failed in ${PROFILE_NAME}. Please check the logs." > {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BLOCKED_FILE }}' backup: run-before: # Bring down Docker before backup - 'systemctl stop docker.socket' - 'systemctl stop docker' run-finally: - 'grep --invert-match -E "^unchanged|\(0 B added, 0 B stored\)|\(0 B added\)" {{ tempFile "backup.log" }} > {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-restic-backup.log' # Copy log file, stripping out any unchanced files - 'systemctl start docker' # Bring Docker back online after backup one-file-system: false # Exclude other file systems no-error-on-warning: true # Don't consider warnings as backup failures source: # Directories to back up - '{{ $LOCATION_PRIMARY_BACKUP_SOURCE }}' exclude-file: '{{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_EXCLUDE }}' # File containing exclude patterns exclude-caches: true # Exclude cache files schedule: '{{ $SCHEDULE_RESTIC_BACKUP }}' # Backup schedule schedule-permission: system # Schedule permission schedule-lock-wait: 10m # Wait time for the lock during schedule schedule-log: '{{ tempFile "backup.log" }}' # Log file to /tmp. This contains all information, including unchanged files which we do not care about verbose: 2 # Log details about processed files check: schedule: '{{ $SCHEDULE_RESTIC_CHECK }}' # Verification schedule schedule-permission: system # Schedule permission schedule-lock-wait: 10m # Wait time for the lock during schedule schedule-log: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-restic-check.log' # Log file read-data: true # Verify data during check prune: dry-run: true # Only prune if safe to do so, change manually repack-uncompressed: true # Repack all uncompressed data forget: dry-run: true # Only forget if safe to do so, change manually rewrite: dry-run: true # Only rewrite if safe to do so, change manually forget: true # Remove original snapshots after creating new ones exclude-file: '{{ $CONFIG_RESTIC_EXCLUDE }}' # File containing exclude patterns mount: allow-other: true # Allow other users to access the mount point rebuild-index: read-all-packs: true # Read all pack files to generate new index from scratch # The following shell profiles are simply to run other shell scripts at a scheduled time # We do not actually run the primary Restic commands listed, as we exit the process early shell-postgres: # Profile to run shell scripts only. We exit the current process before Restic can run. backup: schedule: '{{ $SCHEDULE_POSTGRES_BACKUP }}' # Postgres backup schedule schedule-permission: system # Schedule permission schedule-lock-mode: ignore # Ignore locks, if any schedule-log: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-postgres-backup.log' # Log file dry-run: true # Don't write data run-before: # Dump postgres databases - 'chmod 777 /var/run/docker.sock' - 'docker exec -t immich-postgres pg_dumpall -c -U postgres | gzip > "{{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP }}/immich-dump-{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}.sql.gz" && echo "Dumped Immich database: {{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP }}/immich-dump-{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}.sql.gz"' - 'docker exec -t joplin-postgres pg_dumpall -c -U joplin | gzip > "{{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP }}/joplin-dump-{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}.sql.gz" && echo "Dumped Joplin database: {{ $LOCATION_POSTGRES_DUMP }}/joplin-dump-{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}.sql.gz"' - 'kill $$' shell-sync: backup: schedule: '{{ $SCHEDULE_SYNC_BACKUP }}' # Sync backup schedule schedule-permission: system # Schedule permission schedule-lock-mode: ignore # Ignore locks, if any schedule-log: '{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_LOG }}/{{ $CONFIG_CURRENT_TIME }}-rsync-backup.log' # Log file dry-run: true # Don't write data run-before: # Sync the Restic repo, after checking if the repository is in good health - 'if [ -f "{{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_BLOCKED_FILE }}" ]; then echo "There has been a problem with the Restic repository, please check the logs. If everything is okay, delete the BLOCKED file." && kill $$; fi' - '{{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_BINARY }} -v sync {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_REPO }} {{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_REPO }} --config={{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_CONFIG }} --b2-hard-delete' - '{{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_BINARY }} cleanup {{ $LOCATION_RESTIC_REPO }} --config={{ $LOCATION_RCLONE_CONFIG }}' - 'kill $$'
Resticprofile doesn’t let me run other shell commands on a schedule, and because I wanted everything in a single configuration, I just created two new profiles which call the backup command. I then made the shell commands run before Restic, and then finally killed the instance before it got to actually run, which effectively does what I needed.