Re:Ask HN: Developer Workstation Backups
by dsimmons on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @09:36PM
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I too used to use Crashplan! It steadily went downhill over the years though, so I was looking for an alternative.
I ultimately ended up evaluating various options and deciding on Kopia: https://github.com/kopia/kopia -- been using it for the better part of a year and loving it!
It's basically everything I wanted out of the box: content-addressed storage with built-in deduplication, built-in encryption, compression, many supported backends (filesystem, Backblaze B2, other cloud providers, etc...).
I currently take snapshots on a cron every 30 minutes to a triple-replicated GlusterFS cluster, as well as off-site syncs once daily (B2 currently). Because all of the data is encrypted at rest, I don't mind it sitting in a cloud bucket.
I ultimately ended up evaluating various options and deciding on Kopia: https://github.com/kopia/kopia -- been using it for the better part of a year and loving it!
It's basically everything I wanted out of the box: content-addressed storage with built-in deduplication, built-in encryption, compression, many supported backends (filesystem, Backblaze B2, other cloud providers, etc...).
I currently take snapshots on a cron every 30 minutes to a triple-replicated GlusterFS cluster, as well as off-site syncs once daily (B2 currently). Because all of the data is encrypted at rest, I don't mind it sitting in a cloud bucket.