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?
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Duplicati, to a friend’s home server who lives in another town.
I hate to ask the scary question, but have you tried to restore your backups before? I used Duplicati and discovered that none of my backups were usable and ended up switching to Duplicacy.
It works just fine for me, but I’ve heared scary storries so now Im using:
- Kopia to backblaze b2 (all data)
- Kopia to local disk (all data)
- Duplicati to google drive (only 1 folder)
This is why I switched to restic.
An important question though.
I have, when I first set it up, and again once when I needed to.
How would one realistically go about testing their backup? Do you need a bunch of empty drives?
You don’t need to do full restores, spot check random files.
+1 for Duplicacy. It just works, truly does. Duplicati on the other hand seems to work, but has a tendency to fail on restore, just as you described.
