Stuck on how to make an offsite backup

GodAtum

GodAtum

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At home i have the following types of files:

Onedrive
  • personal documents
  • photos

Freenas
  • Vidoes
  • Downloads
  • Films

External HDD
  • OS backups

Onedrive is fin for now but I need somewhere to store everything on my freenas and hdd. I'm not sure if AWS or Azure would like me storing some of the types of stuff I have. I could rent a dedicated server but some of the T&Cs prohibit certain files.
 
Amazon and Microsoft do not care what you store on their services, unless you start distributing it to others and they receive takedown notices. It's simple enough to supply encryption keys to avoid this.
 
Cool, i was thinking about setting up an owncloud on Azure but could not quite work out how much it would all cost. My MSDN subscription gives around £70/month to spend on Azure.
 
After a quick test, my broadband upload speed is very slow (a 3GB file in 15 hours). It looks like it will be not feasible for me to have an owncloud server as it will take too long to upload and slow my internet down :(
 
GodAtum said:
After a quick test, my broadband upload speed is very slow (a 3GB file in 15 hours). It looks like it will be not feasible for me to have an owncloud server as it will take too long to upload and slow my internet down :(
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First backup may be horrifically painful but if backups were incremental from there it may not be too bad unless you generate a lot of media.
 
I use rysnc to backup my Linux NAS nightly to a dedicated server with Hetzner (Hosts email, owncloud etc using virtualmin) then I use the build in backup tool in virtualmin to backup the dedicated server to Amazon S3 on a middaily basis with backups kept for 7 days

It's probably somewhat overkill, but I'm about as guarded against data loss as I can be.
 
Frozennova said:
I use rysnc to backup my Linux NAS nightly to a dedicated server with Hetzner (Hosts email, owncloud etc using virtualmin) then I use the build in backup tool in virtualmin to backup the dedicated server to Amazon S3 on a middaily basis with backups kept for 7 days

It's probably somewhat overkill, but I'm about as guarded against data loss as I can be.
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How large is your nightly backup?
 
GodAtum said:
How large is your nightly backup?
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NAS to dedicate is generally a couple hundred MB at most, because I'm using rsync its incremental and only transfers changes.

The dedi to S3 back is currently around 130gb and runs for about 4 hours which is creating the tarball then transferring (200mbit guaranteed upload)

It took about 24 hours to run the full backup from the NAS to dedi when I changed providers
 
Do you encrypt your files? I was thinking Owncloud offers encryption but I don't think AWS does.

I found an AWS service where I can ship in a hdd and they will load data. I have around 1TB of data which will be $100. I can then put that in Glacier and push rsync with my freenas box.

The 2nd option will be to buy a dedicated server, setup an owncloud HA cluster and just use that.
 
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GodAtum said:
Do you encrypt your files? I was thinking Owncloud offers encryption but I don't think AWS does.

I found an AWS service where I can ship in a hdd and they will load data. I have around 1TB of data which will be $100. I can then put that in Glacier and push rsync with my freenas box.

The 2nd option will be to buy a dedicated server, setup an owncloud HA cluster and just use that.
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I don't bother with encryption. The dedicated server is pretty well hardened and I'm not paranoid enough to expect any funny goings on with people at Amazon going through my data.
 
GodAtum said:
It seems very fiddly to setup and does not seem offically supported (https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/crashplan-on-freenas-9-3.26487/)

How was setup for you?
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Basically install, then you install the client on your machine and change the config to point to the server.

It can be a bit fiddly and mine did break once (and by break I mean I just couldn't connect my client - it was actually still running and working on the server), but the FreeNAS forums are always helpful.

It's been working solidly for a good year now.
 
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