<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br><br><br>On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 at 16:54, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:41 PM Federer Fanatic <<a href="mailto:nafdef@gmail.com" target="_blank">nafdef@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi, I run Ubuntu mostly and currently use crashplan, I would like to have my own<div>server setup using an opensource solution. I would be willing to pay for someone</div><div>who has extensive experience in a home setup. Everything has to be open configuration, i.e.,</div><div>you need to show me what you did :-)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>If you already run Ubuntu, then I assume you want to replace crashplan with a local</div><div class="gmail_quote">backup solution? Or are there additional features you need for NextCloud (other than</div><div class="gmail_quote">backup).</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. Local, I suppose away from my residence, failing that in my house in a location that is securely locked up and "secret"</div><div>so that a thief (highly unlikely) would breakin my house. That is I suppose is the benefit of offsite backup. My current data</div><div>resides on a ZFS partition of two identical hard disks. And I have snap shots and use</div><div>the perl script that manages the config file. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Assuming you only need backup:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Backup can simply be an external disk, over a USB3 connection, or a hotplug SATA</div><div class="gmail_quote">or e-SATA. There are many programs that can do it, but I prefer an incremental</div><div class="gmail_quote">backup scheme. That means that you do a full image every week or month, then <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">in between the full backups, you do delta backups (things that changed only).</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The tool I use is dump, which works for ext filesystems. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://linux.die.net/man/8/dump" target="_blank">https://linux.die.net/man/8/dump</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Full backup, assuming it is mounted at /mnt/extdisk</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>/sbin/dump -h 0 -b 64 -0 -u -z -f /mnt/extdisk/backup-yymmdd.dump /<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Daily backup</div>DOM=`date +%a`<br><div><div class="gmail_quote">/sbin/dump -h 0 -b 64 -1 -u -z -f /mnt/extdisk/backup-$DOM.dump /</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Then you rotate the disk outside the house, e.g. keep it at a friend or at your</div><div class="gmail_quote">workplace. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">There are other solutions, such as rsync, zfs tricks, ...etc. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">As long as you have a backup physically outside your home, you are good, even</div><div class="gmail_quote">if it is a month out of date. Better than nothing if your computer is stolen (yes, <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">that happened to me a couple of decades ago, and I had a tape that saved my data). <br></div></div></div>
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