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If you're reading this and concerned for your own backup story, fret not! In 2019 secure off-premise backups are super easy to implement, even for a 1 person sh

If you're reading this and concerned for your own backup story, fret not! In 2019 secure off-premise backups are super easy to implement, even for a 1 person shop. Get something like Restic or Borg or any one of the enumerated options here: https://github.com/restic/others https://github.com/restic/others I've recently implemented backups with Restic, the static binary and plethora of supported storage backends was extremely appealing. The easiest seems to be to just point it at a S3 bucket, but given most people have infrastructure on AWS (off-premise means off-premise) having other options supported out of the box is pretty handy.

copperx 7y ago
How do you verify your off-site backups? Do you periodically download the entire backup set and bit compare to the originals? That sounds like a lot of bandwidth usage, not to mention costs.
type0 7y ago
> The easiest seems to be to just point it at a S3 bucket, but given most people have infrastructure on AWS (off-premise means off-premise) having other options supported out of the box is pretty handy. Sure, having other options is good: https://min.io/ https://min.io/
- shuzchen 7y ago
  Minio is great! I use it! But spinning up and managing yet another service when you're already a small shop adds more barriers to entry. Maybe find an already s3-compatible store (like Wasabi) or find something cheap and easy to spin up that's supported by the tool (like https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box)
hartator 7y ago
How do you restore DO Spaces files? Real backups are freaking hard.
jammygit 7y ago
what considerations go into choosing between one option and another? Is there a blog post I could read on the topic?
sbov 7y ago
Note that you can also use Backblaze's B2 cloud storage with Restic. It's pretty cheap and was easy for me to configure.

copperx 7y ago

How do you verify your off-site backups? Do you periodically download the entire backup set and bit compare to the originals? That sounds like a lot of bandwidth usage, not to mention costs.

type0 7y ago

> The easiest seems to be to just point it at a S3 bucket, but given most people have infrastructure on AWS (off-premise means off-premise) having other options supported out of the box is pretty handy. Sure, having other options is good: https://min.io/ https://min.io/

shuzchen 7y ago
Minio is great! I use it! But spinning up and managing yet another service when you're already a small shop adds more barriers to entry. Maybe find an already s3-compatible store (like Wasabi) or find something cheap and easy to spin up that's supported by the tool (like https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box)

hartator 7y ago

How do you restore DO Spaces files? Real backups are freaking hard.

jammygit 7y ago

what considerations go into choosing between one option and another? Is there a blog post I could read on the topic?

sbov 7y ago

Note that you can also use Backblaze's B2 cloud storage with Restic. It's pretty cheap and was easy for me to configure.