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It was one of the easiest to setup and it works flawlessly. I'm a bit paranoid about losing my data even with the backups.. Any recommendation?

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[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

For backups, I have two storage VPSes (one in Los Angeles and one with a completely different provider in Canada), and have an individual backup to each one. I'm using Borgbackup for that.

Borg lets you enable an "append only" mode for particular clients such that even if an attacker were to gain access to your client system, they couldn't delete your backups. This is a common issue with rsync/rclone solutions.

Borg dedupes across all backups, so you can have months of daily backups without using a lot more disk space. Neither rsync nor rclone can do this.

Don't forget to test your backups by doing a data recovery run - act as if your data was lost, and try to set everything up again, maybe on a VM or something. If the backups aren't tested, you don't really have backups :)