How do you guys back up your server?

juliette@pawb.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 131 points –

I have a home server that I’m using and hosting files on it. I’m worried about it breaking and loosing access to the files. So what method do you use to backup everything?

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TrueNAS zfs snapshots, and then a weekly Cron rsync to a servarica VPS with unlimited expanding storage.

If you use a VPS as a backup target, you can also format it with ZFS and use replication. Sending snapshots is faster than using file-level backup tool, especially with a lot of small files.

Interesting, I have noticed it's very slow with initial backups. So snapshot replication sends one large file? What if you want to recover individual files?