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    • guyinpvG
      guyinpv
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      I'm left with these options then:

      1. VULTR daily backup, only keeps 2. It can only be restored by recreating the entire node, no partial recovery.

      2. A server script to send incremental backups of just the files off to B2 or wherever. These couldn't do full restores of the node, or NC itself.

      3. A server script to do the "official" backup procedure of NC and send off to B2 or wherever. This might be the most flexible and normal solution, but I don't like having to keep so many copies of the entire file store if I can help it. It could be used to restore NC itself in the event the software is hacked or an update screws it up thoroughly (although this would not happen, as I take snapshots before those kinds of updates, I would restore the snapshot instead).

      4. Use my local workstation to pull daily or 2x daily incremental file backups onto our local NAS. This could only be used to find accidentally-deleted files that are not in the NC trash bin but it couldn't restore the server, or NC software directly.

      At the end of the day, it's all about the files. If I have to rebuild a VPS and install NC from scratch, so be it, as long as I have the most recent copy of files possible to upload back to it. The second concern is fastest turnaround for people to keep working and use the files. In fact, having the files backed up via a workstation to the NAS is probably the fastest way people can get back to work, because I can just shared the NAS folder internally as I fix everything.

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      • black3dynamiteB
        black3dynamite
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        Here's another backup option for file backups. It's called Restic.
        https://restic.net/

        You can also backup to B2.

        Here's the documentation too.
        https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

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        • brandon220B
          brandon220
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          This can be forked into a new thread if need be - For larger amounts of data in NC how are you all handling the backups? I have a script that backs up NC (database, nc folder, and data drive) to a dedicated NAS. At some point the offsite replication to a remote NAS will take too long and never catch up on a slower WAN link. Is there a recommended way to do incrementals of the NC data? Using rsync? From all my research, it seems like everyone does it different and there is no "best practice". I don't see the need to copy the entire data set for each backup - especially when sending the backup job offsite.

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          • black3dynamiteB
            black3dynamite @brandon220
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            @brandon220 said in Best backup strategy for NextCloud?:

            This can be forked into a new thread if need be - For larger amounts of data in NC how are you all handling the backups? I have a script that backs up NC (database, nc folder, and data drive) to a dedicated NAS. At some point the offsite replication to a remote NAS will take too long and never catch up on a slower WAN link. Is there a recommended way to do incrementals of the NC data? Using rsync? From all my research, it seems like everyone does it different and there is no "best practice". I don't see the need to copy the entire data set for each backup - especially when sending the backup job offsite.

            Before backing up the database, nc folder and data drive, do you turn on maintenance mode first, backup and then turn it off after backup is complete?

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            • brandon220B
              brandon220 @black3dynamite
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              @black3dynamite Yes. I also stop the httpd service even though it isn't necessary.

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              • ObsolesceO
                Obsolesce @black3dynamite
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                @black3dynamite said in Best backup strategy for NextCloud?:

                Here's another backup option for file backups. It's called Restic.
                https://restic.net/

                You can also backup to B2.

                Here's the documentation too.
                https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

                I did a blog post on using Restic to back up to OneDrive 🙂

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                • brandon220B
                  brandon220 @Obsolesce
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                  @Obsolesce said in Best backup strategy for NextCloud?:

                  @black3dynamite said in Best backup strategy for NextCloud?:

                  Here's another backup option for file backups. It's called Restic.
                  https://restic.net/

                  You can also backup to B2.

                  Here's the documentation too.
                  https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

                  I did a blog post on using Restic to back up to OneDrive 🙂

                  Am I correct in saying rclone would not be needed if you had an nfs mount on the local server where restic is installed?

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                  • brandon220B
                    brandon220 @brandon220
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                    @Obsolesce I have restic working without rclone and it is fast and simple. Have to try and script it now.

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                    • ObsolesceO
                      Obsolesce @brandon220
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                      @brandon220 said in Best backup strategy for NextCloud?:

                      @Obsolesce I have restic working without rclone and it is fast and simple. Have to try and script it now.

                      I used rclone in order to use OneDrive as a backup repository. It seemed like the easiest supported way to do it. How did you mount OneDrive without rclone? I'm sure there are more ways, just curious.

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                      • brandon220B
                        brandon220 @Obsolesce
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                        @Obsolesce Not using OneDrive. Using a NAS with a nfs share that is mounted via fstab.

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                        • ObsolesceO
                          Obsolesce @brandon220
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                          @brandon220 said in Best backup strategy for NextCloud?:

                          @Obsolesce Not using OneDrive. Using a NAS with a nfs share that is mounted via fstab.

                          Ah i see, yeah rclone was only used so I could specifically back up to OneDrive. Nothing more.

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                          • dafyreD
                            dafyre
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                            For me, I'm doing a mysqldump of the database, then using rclone to copy the files, the mysqldump, and the /var/www/html folder over to Wasabi.

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