Since config files are important, I’d like the option to go back to a particular setting from weeks or maybe months ago. You can see from the list above that these are just configuration files or even backups of files themselves.
Reason being why these are split into two repositories is so that I can define a separate backup policy for each of them.įor example, small-files contains… small files. I have restic set up to backup to two respositories: The other one I was contending with was Wasabi they’re only marginally more expensive than B2 for storage ($0.0059 GB/month), but they don’t charge for downloads.Ĭloud storage cost comparisons Backup contents and policy There are a load of other storage services too here’s a list below taken from Backblaze’s website. Being able to store it cheap over a long term is most important. So it costs more to download from B2, but since this is a disaster recovery backup I don’t anticipate downloading all that much. At the time of writing they charge $0.005 GB/month for storage, and $0.01 per GB downloaded. I’m then using Backblaze B2 to store these in the cloud. Restic is storing the snapshots in repositories on my local NFS server. Getting set up on them is beyond the scope of this post.īackups should be automated without us having to think of them (at least until you need to restore!), so for this I’ll be using systemd unit services with timers. Rclone is a cloud file transfer tool that allows you to synchronise, copy, etc., any data across a huge library of cloud backends.īoth of these are open source tools that are free to use. You can specify your backup policy to a repository, where it will manage what daily, weekly, or monthly snapshots to keep. Restic is a backup snapshot tool that given a set of directories, it will split the data into chunks and de-duplicate these chunks to a specified backup repository. I used this as a good opportunity to ensure I had other backups in place for some other critical files at home too. Over the last UK lockdown I spent some time making sure I had backups of my music collection after I had organised them using beets.
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