For those of you running Unraid and backing up their data to Backblaze, how are you doing it?

I’ve been playing a bit with KopiaUI but what is the easiest and most straight forward way?

Bonus points if I can have the same “client/software/utility” backup data from non-servers (Windows, macOS and Linux) in my network to said Unraid server.

I don’t want to complicate the setup with a bunch of dependencies and things that would make the recovery process long and tedious or require in-depth knowledge to use it for the recovery process.

To recap:

Workstations/laptop > back up data with what? > Unraid

Unraid > back up data with what? > Backblaze

    • lal309@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Mind sharing the script (without the sensitive data)?

      I haven’t taken the plunge into rclone because of the scripting part of the equation. Just not great at bash.

        • lal309@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          My fault! This is exactly what I was going to do as I’m unfamiliar with rclone. My comment about the script was to see how to do checks to make sure the remote is actually available before trying, how to make sure the job ran successfully, how to send a notification upon success/failure, etc.

          I’m pretty novice at bash but I know other languages very well. Concepts apply more or less the same across languages, the only thing that changes in most cases is syntax.

          Anyways, good write up and I appreciate your feedback.

            • lal309@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              The script I’m building is coming up nicely. I have it checking for error codes, logging to a file and sending discord notifications. Next step is to finish up all the rclone copy’s and syncs I want to do and then trying to encrypt the data client side before uploading to cloud. I’ve seen mention of crypt but can’t find it in the official rclone docs (yet).

                • lal309@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  I don’t need the whole rclone.conf file right? Just the authentication stuff for the underlying remote, the password for crypt and the salt for crypt. If I have that shouldn’t I be able to recreate the access and subsequently the decryption key to be used on some other machine?

  • Limit@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    I’m a big fan of duplicati. You can install it on Linux, windows, (not sure about mac) and use it to send backups anywhere. Backup to your nas, to s3, smb share, whatever.

    • lal309@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I’ve mostly stayed away from duplicati because of the “horror stories” around restore operations. Quotes because sometimes people exaggerate but other times they are legitimate concerns/bad experiences.

    • Research8165@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’ve generally had a positive experience with duplicati to backup unraid to backblaze. Recently had time to test my encrypted backup, and had no problem restoring it.

      • Limit@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I use it to send backups to backblaze b2 also, it works very well for me.

  • camr_on@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’m partial to duplicacy, not to be confused with duplicati. Has worked great for me

  • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Sorry, this question might just reveal my ignorance, but what is the advantage of using all these programs over just using rsync? Yes, I am old and simple, but I’d love to know.

    • witten@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      For starters: encryption at rest, block-level deduplication across backups, cloud storage, database support, container support, etc etc.

  • xyguy@startrek.website
    3·
    2 years ago

    I use Syncthing on all my endpoints Windows and Linux (can’t speak for Mac) to sync to my TrueNAS server. It has a built in tool to just back up to backblaze on a certain schedule.

    I know you can use Syncthing with unraid in Docker. I have it set up so sync all endpoints to my server and then the server pushes the latest changes back to all the endpoints. This is overly redundant and you don’t have to do it that way but all endpoints and my server would have to die at the same time before I lost any data. It’s sort of a backup scheme in and on itself.

  • lal309@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    UPDATE: Decide to give rclone a try and try to automate it all through scripts. So far I the rclone script checking for errors, logging to a file and sending discord notifications.

  • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I use nextcloud to sync files from PC/phone to server and then Kopia CLI for daily backup to backblaze (also 2nd local backup). I start kopia web server for easier restore, but luckily I never had to do a real restore, only testing backups