Backup Solution

Hi, on this post I want to bring to you my backup solution, at least of the most important files I have.

First of all I have a home server where I have some VM’s. To store my files I actually have a two seagate Ironwolf disks of 2 TB each in raid 1. I actually have a lot of more hard drives, but this 2 TB have all the family photos, videos and work that I have done trough the years.

More than that I have a 2 TB external hard drive where I make a backup all months from the main share. But even with this setup if some disaster happens I would probably lose all my data.

With that in mind, I wanted a solution to back up the data to a remote location. After many hours of searching and after trying some solutions. I actually found out that the best solution for me would be owning a Storage VPS and rsync all my data every night.

To make that possible, I used a storage server from liteserver.nl, and rsync to sync all my data. An example of the script is below.

#bin/bash rsync -aHAXxv --numeric-ids --progress -e "ssh -i <private_key> -T -o Compression=no -x" <source_folder> <username>@<server>:<destination_folder

Then I set crontab on linux to run every night

30 2 * * * /path/to/the/file

This is a simple setup to backup your files. Not very complex but quite good. I know that there are very other ways to backup your files and another services that offer better solutions. But with a simple solution I could have all my home devices broken and still have access to my files.

Another way that keeps you from paying a monthly subscription would be by buying a raspberry pi and an hard drive and ask one friend or family member to host it.

I hope you liked this post. Even tho this is my first attempt to publish something like this.

I’m not paid by liteserver but if you want to help me please use my referral link

Originally published at https://blog.imagesoftware.tk on April 5, 2020.