#DUPLICACY VS RESTIC INSTALL#
#DUPLICACY VS RESTIC FULL#
#DUPLICACY VS RESTIC SOFTWARE#

Obviously this depends in the particular NAS you get, but the system below is perfect for me.

#DUPLICACY VS RESTIC SOFTWARE#

Also, a critical element of this system for me is that there is an off-site component, so getting that software on it is extremely important, and I’d rather have a well-supported linux computer to deal with rather than something esoteric.

#DUPLICACY VS RESTIC INSTALL#

I wasn’t impressed by the software (which was hard to upgrade, install other stuff on it, maintain, etc), the power consumption (this was several years ago, but idle the two-drive system used over 30watts, which is the same power that my similarly aged quad core workstation uses when idle!). In the past, I tried one (it was a Buffalo model). It’s a combination of some cheap hardware, inexpensive cloud storage, and decent backup software. I’ve tried various solutions, but what I’ve ended up with seems to be working pretty well (most of it has been running for about a year some parts are more recent, and a few have been running for much longer). This is obviously balanced with other concerns (in particular, 2 and 3)! Redundancy across hardware, geographic locations, etc. Anything that’s not in my physical control should be encrypted. Adding & organizing files should be doable without commandline familiarity, so it can serve my whole home. There has to be one place where I can dump files, it has to be simple enough to recover from complete failure of any given piece of hardware even if I haven’t touched it in a long time (because if it is working, I won’t have had to tweak it in months / years). I’m willing to pay about $100-200/year total (including hardware). For me, this is currently about 1TB (+-0.5TB).Ĭheap. What makes up the bulk is photos, some music, and some audio and video files. (Home) scalable – i.e., any reasonable amount of data that I could generate personally I should be able to dump in one place, and be confident that it won’t go away.

Different people need different things, but what I need, and have built (hence this post describing the system), fulfills the following requirements:

#DUPLICACY VS RESTIC FULL#

Other files, like photos, or personal documents, generally don’t have a natural redundant home, so they need some backup story, and relying on various online services is risky (what if they go out of business, “pivot”, etc), potentially time-consuming to keep track of (services for photos may not allow videos, or at least not full resolution ones, etc), limited in various ways (max file sizes, storage allotments, etc), not to mention bringing up serious privacy concerns. Some stuff, like code that lives in repositories, may naturally end up in many places, so it perhaps is less important to explicitly back up.

Duplicacy vs restic