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?

  • ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • GammaScorpii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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?

      • ThetaDev@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        You can access ZFS snapshots from the hidden .zfs folder at the root dir of your volume. From there you can restore individual files.

        There is also a command line tool (httm) that lists all snapshotted versions of a files and allows you to restore them.

        If the snapshot you want to restore from is on a remote machine, you can either send it over or scp/rsync the files from the .zfs directory.