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What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What storage software could I run to have an archive of my personal files (a couple TB of photos) that doesn't require I keep a full local copy of all the data? I like the idea of a simple and focused tool like Syncthing, but they seem to be angling towards replication.

Is the simple choice to run some S3-like backend and use CLI or other client to append and browse files? I'd love something with fault tolerance that someone can gradually add disks to. If ceph were either less complicated or used less resources I'd want to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Save your files to a local s3 object storage mount, enable versioning for immutability and use erasure coding for fault tolerance. You can use Lustre or some other S3 software for the mount. S3 is great for single user file access. You can also replicate to any cloud based S3 for offsite.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I use Borg Backup to a Hetzner storage box but doing the same thing to a disk array would work fine. How much data are you talking about? What is the usage picture? Backup and archiving are really not the same thing.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Syncthing can do send only. It's pretty configurable.

But I'd probably use a cloud storage like storj.io, and tools like duplicati.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would this work? https://rclone.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's top of my list for moving the files if I do an S3 or WebDAV backend. I'm overthinking this, aren't I? Just find a WebDAV server, set it up, use rclone to append files and pretty much everything else will be able to browse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Haha it's easy to overthink things sometimes. I'm guilty of that. I'm using SFTPGo at home to serve files from a small server.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are we talking personal offsite backup, or a commercial cloud service?

For cloud backups I like BackBlaze but I’ve never tried to use it as a general cloud storage drive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This would be self-hosted and local, one of the locations in a 3-2-1 strategy. BackBlaze would work for an offsite but I already have that portion covered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

that doesn't require I keep a full local copy of all the data

So you want a local self hosted backup, but also not a full copy? So like backup only recently changed files?

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