Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server?

Re:Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server? by techhazard on Saturday June 10, 2023 @09:01AM (#36270096)

Desktop, Laptop, NAS and Server all run on ZFS and push snapshots to an extra backup pool on the Server (colocated in a DC).

Those backups are also pushed to an offsite location (with a hosting provider).

Laptop and NAS run on a single disk rootfs, Desktop and Server run on mirrored nvme drives.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server? by egberts1 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @09:04AM (#36270127)

Am still intimidated by ZFS not being introduced into the Linux Kernel tree.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server? by bombcar on Saturday June 10, 2023 @09:50AM (#36270450)

It’s not a big deal if you have a distribution that helps, but then again I run Gentoo.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server? by egberts1 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @09:52AM (#36270466)

good to know. Been running Gentoo since 2004.

Last of the split-usr advocate due to embedded engineering and IoT.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server? by bombcar on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:22AM (#36270710)

I run Gentoo because I prefer init.rd to what I like to call Systemd/Linux.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server? by techhazard on Sunday June 11, 2023 @11:57AM (#36282560)

I now run NixOS, so that’s a non-issue for me.

But even so, it’s not hard, you have to install the ZFS package and make sure it’s included in your initramfs (if you use ZFS for / ).

On arch I used the linux-lts kernel with ZFS and never had any issues in three years.

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