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Basically title. I'm in the process of setting up a proper backup for my configured containers on Unraid and I'm wondering how often I should run my backup script. Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent? Whats your schedule and do you strictly backup your appdata (container configs), or is there other data you include in your backups?

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 1 week ago

Daily toward all my three locations:

  • local on the server
  • in-house but on a different device
  • offsite

But not all three destinations backup the same amount of data due to storage limitations.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Assuming it is on: Daily

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm always backing up with SyncThing in realtime, but every week I do an off-site type of tarball backup that isn't within the SyncThing setup.

[–] Jozav@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Using Kopia, backups are made multiple times per day to Google drive. Only changes are transferred.

Configurations are backed up once per week and manually, stored 4 weeks. Websites and NextCloud data is backed up every hour and stored for a year (although I'm doing this only 7 months now).

Kopia is magic, recommended!

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 1 points 1 week ago

@Sunny Backups are done weekly, using Restic (and with '--read-data-subset=9%' to verify that the backup data is still valid).

But that's also in addition to doing nightly Snapraid syncs for larger media, and Syncthing for photos & documents (which means I have copies on 2+ machines).

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