[dewey]

Went through many iterations over the years. Arq, restic, borg, tarsnap setting up encryption, incremental backups with cronjobs and all the good stuff.

Some years ago I realized that I value the possibility to restore also for people that are not me higher than the nerd factor and security so I just settled with Backblaze as my main backup and Time Machine for local convenience. Carbon Copy Cloned to just clone my attached drives to my NAS if they are attached.

For me backups are not the place to fiddle around with obscure solutions that nobody in my family would be able to use.

[crossroadsguy]

I am also doing borg, restic, tarsnap currently (evaluating Kopia) but of late a fatigue has been setting in. My best backup (and in fact recovery) experience has been with CrashPlan (Personal) really. Nothing comes close to it somehow. Tinkering, deduplication, compression all are hunky dory but at the end of the day I just want to be able to easily visualise what I do and what I need and what I am searching et cetera.

[PorterBHall]

I have made my system pretty basic, relying on cron and rsync, because I figure that’s the most futureproof and secure way. But you helped me realize that if something happened to me and our NAS, my family would not be able to restore from backup. I’ll have to work on that.

[10729287]

Definitely. And write things !