At home: I use scheduled btrfs snapshots on mission NAS and send them periodically to backup NAS off-site.
I keep up to year old backup snapshots. I am 100% linux shop, so, if I could not use btrfs NAS to NAS snapshot send/receive. I would (was) use borg to send backups to remote NAS. Hope it helps, Tomas On Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 16:44 Paul Heinlein <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2024, Charles Sliger wrote: > > > Looking for recommendations for Linux backups. > > Anyone use theirs for actual restoring of files or disks? > > Yes. > > At work, we use Bacula and an actual in-operation tape library. We've > never had trouble with restoring data, but we don't image or restore > whole block devices. We maintain a few petabytes of data on tape. > > We also use a product that I believe now goes by the name MSB Backup. > We have a licensed version, but there's a free version for desktop > machines. We use that product to back files up to Amazon S3/Glacier; > we do test restorations at least once a year, and we've not yet had > any problems. > > But, really, first things first: > > Are you concerned with hardware failure (e.g., failed disk), human > failure (e.g, mistakenly deleted file), or both? > > Human failure can largely be mitigated with some sort of copy-on-write > file snapshotting system, which can be provided by ZFS, LVM, and > related technologies. > > If hardware failure, what is the scope of failure against which you > want to protect? Failed hard drive? Stolen computer? Burned-down > domicile? Cascadia under water? Your answer will tall you a lot about > where to store your files: a second hard drive, a removable hard drive > kept in a secure location, a local off-site venue, an out-of-region > venue. > > What is the timeframe of failure you want to guard against? A day? A > week? Month? Year? Longer? > > Do you need your backups stored in multiple locations? > > -- > Paul Heinlein > heinl...@madboa.com > 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W >
