garethgeorge/backrest

It's not iCloud Photos, in my case it's Google Photos. But I keep a copy of all my photos in a self-hosted instance of Immich [1], which I then back up to a Hetzner Storage Box using Backrest [2]. So I end up with 3 copies of all my photos, on 3 different providers (I mean... 2 different providers plus my homelab disk). [1] https://immich.app/ [2] https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

I have a server in a closet with a few hard drives attached to it. All of my devices connect to it via Tailscale. I use the wonderful https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest as a web UI around restic. Every night, I back the data up to a Hetzner storage box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ which is only ~$3.50/mo USD for 1TB of data. I have three "tiers" of data for myself: 1. Important things I care about: these go into a folder that gets backed up to Hetzner (examples include photos in Immich, code pushed to Forgejo, etc) 2. Smaller files I sort-of care about: these usually just go into Proton Drive (examples include design documents) 3. Large files I don't care about lo…

I like https://www.borgbase.com It's set it and forget. You will need to set it up for them, then you get an email (from borgbackup, not the client so it works when the client is not running) when a backup hasn't happened for a while. As client there are more options now (like Vorta, from them), but I have had success with https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest and the Restic backend.

For those of you looking for an easy management UI for restic, backrest is amazing: https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

For anyone looking for a convenient way to set restic up: Backrest[1] provides a docker container and a web interface to configure, monitor and restore your restic backups. [1] https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

I was using Restic + Backrest as well for my personal Windows machines and it was great. Then I found out that Backrest stores the vault password (among other things) in a simple plaintext file on your local hard drive. Not sure if this applies to all platforms but for Windows users that is a huge security hole in today's environment. https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/issues/1047