Ask HN: What’s Your Backups System?

Re:Ask HN: What’s Your Backups System? by duiker101 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:24AM (#21212147)

So, I recently setup this system for personal use so I haven't had a full opportunity to use it and I don't have too much data so it might be a bit too tailored to my use case but here it goes.

I use Resilio[1] to sync my laptop, phone (on an SDCard) and Scaleway VPS, this works really great because i have my files at all times on 3 systems and there is a very low chance they will all fail at the same time. My photos get uploaded instantly from the phone and I can then sort them from the laptop.

And then I use Cloudberry to backup to BackBlaze B2 to make sure that if anything goes wrong with my files and it gets synced across the system I can still recover them.

The whole setup costs me probably less than 3€ a month(2.49 for the VPS and a handful of cents for the B2) and gives me the same functionality I was getting from just using Dropbox for 12€.

I can also throw a few more services on the VPS to enhance file functionality at no cost, which I would not be able to do any other way.

[1] https://www.resilio.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What’s Your Backups System? by mceachen on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:56PM (#21216753)

FWIW, Resilio used to be rock-solid for me on Android, and the latest version's got show-stopper issues (doesn't sync after a while, then refuses to quit, requiring me to reboot my phone to make it work again) (Both Android 10 on Pixel2 and Android 9 on OnePlus)

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Re:Ask HN: What’s Your Backups System? by jamesholden on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:13AM (#21212726)

What VPS? How is your B2 so cheap?

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Re:Ask HN: What’s Your Backups System? by duiker101 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:41AM (#21212883)

As a VPS I use Scaleway I use C1 instance with 75GB, I'm sorry I misquoted it, it comes to 3.49€ a month. (+.5€ / 25GB)

BackBlaze is 0.005/GB. I have around something like 20GB of photos and the rest is documents which will take maybe 1 more GB so it's really not that expensive.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s Your Backups System? by gesman on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:52PM (#21220365)

BackBlaze might decide to delete your files, unless you carefully read and understand their TOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21199725

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Re:Ask HN: What’s Your Backups System? by duiker101 on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:08AM (#21246352)

Thanks for this, I was not aware. For now I think they are still my best option but I will definitely keep this in mind and adjust my setup.

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