[shuzchen]

If you're reading this and concerned for your own backup story, fret not! In 2019 secure off-premise backups are super easy to implement, even for a 1 person shop. Get something like Restic or Borg or any one of the enumerated options here: https://github.com/restic/others

I've recently implemented backups with Restic, the static binary and plethora of supported storage backends was extremely appealing. The easiest seems to be to just point it at a S3 bucket, but given most people have infrastructure on AWS (off-premise means off-premise) having other options supported out of the box is pretty handy.

[type0]

> The easiest seems to be to just point it at a S3 bucket, but given most people have infrastructure on AWS (off-premise means off-premise) having other options supported out of the box is pretty handy.

Sure, having other options is good: https://min.io/

[shuzchen]

Minio is great! I use it! But spinning up and managing yet another service when you're already a small shop adds more barriers to entry. Maybe find an already s3-compatible store (like Wasabi) or find something cheap and easy to spin up that's supported by the tool (like https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box)

[hartator]

How do you restore DO Spaces files? Real backups are freaking hard.

[copperx]

How do you verify your off-site backups? Do you periodically download the entire backup set and bit compare to the originals? That sounds like a lot of bandwidth usage, not to mention costs.

[sbov]

Note that you can also use Backblaze's B2 cloud storage with Restic. It's pretty cheap and was easy for me to configure.

[jammygit]

what considerations go into choosing between one option and another? Is there a blog post I could read on the topic?