Tag: backup

Backblaze B2 + rclone: Tiered Backup at Real-World Costs

Stop burning money on AWS egress fees. Here is how to build a real tiered backup strategy using Backblaze B2 plus rclone for your home lab setup in 2026.

Snapper for Btrfs Snapshots on Root Filesystems

Set up Snapper on Btrfs to auto-snapshot before every system update, roll back broken machines in minutes, and never lose a working root filesystem again.

Kopia Repository Server: Multi-Host Backups Done Right

Stop letting every machine write directly to S3. Kopia repository server gives you shared dedup, per-host auth, and sane maintenance — all in one place.

Restic Repository Maintenance: Prune, Check, Forget

Your restic repo is ballooning. Learn forget, prune, and check — the right order, real flags, automation, and why full check can wreck your entire weekend.

Self-Hoster's Disaster Recovery: When Everything Goes Wrong at Once

Build a real disaster recovery plan for your home lab: RTO/RPO explained simply, 3-2-1 backup rule, Proxmox backups, Restic to Backblaze B2, and a runbook template you'll actually use.

You Should Be Testing Your Restores

You've got backups. Great. But do you know if they actually work? RTO and RPO mean nothing if you've never actually restored.

Restic vs Borg vs Kopia: Backup Tools for People Who've Lost Data Before

Restic vs Borg vs Kopia compared: deduplication, compression, backends, and practical backup scripts. Choose the right tool for your Linux home lab or server backups in 2026.

Automatic backup of docker Mysql or MariaDB container

Automate MySQL/MariaDB backups from a running Docker container using cron and mysqldump — no downtime, no excuses for losing your data.