How does everyone backup their servers?

• Rsnapshot

  72 3,080 5.1 Perl

  a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

  

• s3cmd

  10 4,418 5.9 Python

  Official s3cmd repo -- Command line tool for managing S3 compatible storage services (including Amazon S3 and CloudFront).

  

I have a cronjob that runs hourly which creates a tarball and then uses s3cmd to push files to Amazon S3. It also removes local backups that are older than 3 hours old, and retention policy removes S3 backups older than 7 days old.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• BorgBackup

  333 10,526 9.4 Python

  Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

  

I'm using BorgBackup with Borgmatic and making backups to BorgBase. I was using plugins (like DriveBackupV2) before and uploading my backups to Google Drive but it was pretty slow and using a lot of space. With Borg I can make backups much more frequently and without using a lot of space thanks to deduplication.

• borgmatic

  61 1,639 9.5 Python

  Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

  

I'm using BorgBackup with Borgmatic and making backups to BorgBase. I was using plugins (like DriveBackupV2) before and uploading my backups to Google Drive but it was pretty slow and using a lot of space. With Borg I can make backups much more frequently and without using a lot of space thanks to deduplication.

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