backrest

It's not iCloud Photos, in my case it's Google Photos. But I keep a copy of all my photos in a self-hosted instance of Immich [1], which I then back up to a Hetzner Storage Box using Backrest [2]. So I end up with 3 copies of all my photos, on 3 different providers (I mean... 2 different providers plus my homelab disk). [1] https://immich.app/ [2] https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

I was using Restic + Backrest as well for my personal Windows machines and it was great. Then I found out that Backrest stores the vault password (among other things) in a simple plaintext file on your local hard drive. Not sure if this applies to all platforms but for Windows users that is a huge security hole in today's environment. https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/issues/1047

I have a server in a closet with a few hard drives attached to it. All of my devices connect to it via Tailscale. I use the wonderful https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest as a web UI around restic. Every night, I back the data up to a Hetzner storage box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ which is only ~$3.50/mo USD for 1TB of data. I have three "tiers" of data for myself: 1. Important things I care about: these go into a folder that gets backed up to Hetzner (examples include photos in Immich, code pushed to Forgejo, etc) 2. Smaller files I sort-of care about: these usually just go into Proton Drive (examples include design documents) 3. Large files I don't care about losing: these go into a folder on a hard drive that is not backed up (examples include media) This took me about a day to set up and I just check in on it eve

I use https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest to manage nightly encrypted backups of my Forgejo instance to a Hetzner Storage Box. <$4/mo for 500GB of storage. It's also where I back up my Immich library to. Immich automatically dumps its DB every day, for Forgejo I have a little script that runs as part of the Backrest backup that does a pgdumb of the database before doing the backup. It works great, I even had to do disaster recovery on it once and it went smooth.

I like https://www.borgbase.com It's set it and forget. You will need to set it up for them, then you get an email (from borgbackup, not the client so it works when the client is not running) when a backup hasn't happened for a while. As client there are more options now (like Vorta, from them), but I have had success with https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest and the Restic backend.

For those of you looking for an easy management UI for restic, backrest is amazing: https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

For anyone looking for a convenient way to set restic up: Backrest[1] provides a docker container and a web interface to configure, monitor and restore your restic backups. [1] https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

You might want to check this out https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

I switched to restic (https://restic.net/) and the backrest webui (https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest) for Windows support. Files are deduplicated across machines with good compression support.

restic with https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest. I'd give second spot to borg (I use it with Vorta). I tried KopiaUI couple of times, it's not something I want as a personal backup tool.

Here's a very actively developed GUI https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest - imho it has come the farthest and is the easiest in terms of use and ease. I have tried too many other restic CLIs/GUIs and settled on this.

It's mostly what I use daily or a lot (except one these are not recurring; I will try to make these recurring once I am financially there again): - https://objective-see.org/support.html (For https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu et al) - https://www.thunderbird.net/donate (I hope none of it goes to Mozilla or Firefox. I also hope https://thundermail.com brings something than I can instead pay for, if I can or will decide to afford, instead of intermittent donations) - https://www.borgbackup.org/support/fund.html (I would want to support https://restic.net as well as I use it so much but they never setup a way - it has been discussed :/) - https://syncthing.net/donations - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#donations - https://cryptomator.org/donate/ - https://www.patreon.com/db4s - https://github.com/sponsors/qarmin for https://github.com/

> it does not have a simple config file where you define your backup settings. Will this https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/discussions/188 work for you? Also, I can add directory file to include exclude directly to this config or to separate files as I please and just refer in this config.

Seriously try restic with Backrest. I had stopped using restic for almost two years after I got tired of tinkering with my local custom scripts to keep restic setup on my mac running. Then I found Backrest. Oh and it lets you use the snapshop browser right in the UI. That's kinda nice. It's really simple and in active development https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest. The dev (lead dev) https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/discussions is very responsive. I know many comments have said it but I also wanted to add it just because backrest is what made restic usable for me again. Vorta is a favourite backup GUI but somehow I am finding backrest even simpler (although would have loved it if it was a tiny menu bar kinda app). Is there something like Deja Dup on Mac? I am planning to find and add another remote repo now (in addition to b