hi peeps.
Im early on my selfhosting journey and managed to setup some things as a test in docker. the main service im looking to run is ERPNext. after a while I got it up and running so now I want to back this up including all the customization I did in the app.
where to start with this? any intuitive guide?
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My setup is easy and reliable:
Bash script that runs restic to backup to backblaze with a 90 day retention snapshot policy and a systemd service + timer.
It runs everyday, everything is backedup to b2, and I don’t need to bother with it.
Pros:
- easy
- quick
- reliable
- private (restic encrypts before sending)
- don’t need to worry about multiple backups as backblaze does it for me (3-2-1 system)
Cons:
- costs (very little) money (backblaze is basically the cheapest provider)
- long restore time as it would be slow to download
- restore costs (pay per gb downloaded)
In addition to daily backups, once a month I image the drive. I wrote a simple script triggered by a cron job to image the drive to a NAS backup. The daily backups go to 3 different offsite storage facilities, and two go to separate NAS drives. All drive images are kept both local and off premise as well. So, for individual files, etc, I can restore them from the daily backups. If the wheels fall off, I can restore the whole drive from an image. Might be a bit over engineered but I’ve been caught a few times and so I just decided that won’t happen again.
I started selfhosting month ago. I’ve came across Borg Web Ui. Its borg, but wrapped in nice web ui. I managed to setup daily local backups to external drive without struggling in the CLI. Borg web ui provides more dumbed down documentation (which is good for me). I’ve also setup to send notification to my phone when the backup is successful. I used NTFY for that
