World Backup Day 2021

caracal

It's world backup day (or soon it is.. depending on your timezone)

Would like to invite you to share how you do your backups.. What rule do you follow?
Share deals with regards to backup..

A) Software deals?
B) Subscription deals? https://cloud.arqbackup.com/purchase/worldBackupDay2021
C) Hardware deals? - NAS/HDD
D) Storage focused VPS deals? 

Go nuts!

m4nu

Here is mine:

To celebrate World Backup Day, BorgBase.com, is offering 15% off on all standard plans. Just use code WBAD21 during checkout.

BorgBase offers simple and secure offsite backup storage based on Borg Backup:

• Encrypted locally with your own key
• Every repository is isolated
• Prevent compromised backups with append-only mode
• Compression and deduplication to reduce space usage and transfers
• Alerts on Missed Backups (email, Pushover, webhooks)
• EU and US region available

We are also strong believers in open source and currently maintain the following projects:

• Vorta, a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. (recently included in Debian 🎉)
• Ansible role to setup Borg+Borgmatic on most server systems

Full thread

Adam1

personal: google drive and file history service to portable drive
biz: rclone vps to biz google drive

not good enough but better than nothing

m4nu

How I do my own backups:

• Server config is in Ansible, data is backed up with Borgmatic. For DB backups, Borgmatic's named pipes are great, since no intermediate DB dump is needed. Big fan.
• Archived data goes to B2, AWS Glacier and on BluRay (to guard against a Carrington event mostly 😅)
• Macbook is backed up with Vorta offsite and to a thumb drive

caracal

@m4nu said:
How I do my own backups:

• Server config is in Ansible, data is backed up with Borgmatic. For DB backups, Borgmatic's named pipes are great, since no intermediate DB dump is needed. Big fan.
• Archived data goes to B2, AWS Glacier and on BluRay (to guard against a Carrington event mostly 😅)
• Macbook is backed up with Vorta offsite and to a thumb drive

Vorta looks cool.. understand that windows support is done thru Ubuntu shell. Would you recommend going that route? I’d love to have all my machines on Borg

default

Happy Backup Day!

bulbasaur

@caracal said: D) Storage focused VPS deals?

Yes. The VPS is RAID6 and I use a minio installation on it to backup my other VPSes through a S3 like interface.

corbpie

Thanks, Got this in an email from OVH

donko

In this day please @Francisco enable jetbackup on lu-shared01 (DirectAdmin)

m4nu

Vorta looks cool.. understand that windows support is done thru Ubuntu shell. Would you recommend going that route? I’d love to have all my machines on Borg

I didn't try this setup myself, but users have reported success with it. I probably wouldn't recommend it for production use yet, @caracal

DataIdeas-Josh

@default said:
Happy Backup Day!

I want this table.

default

@DataIdeas-Josh said:

@default said:
Happy Backup Day!

I want this table.

Order from here: http://www.floppytable.com if you want it.

It would be awesome to see such things in datacenter office, or inside IT company lounge.

caracal

Where are the other deals

lala_th

@hotlineservers @hosthatch @cociu

NetDynamics24

Hello,
our offer still valid:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/170415/backup-storage-plans-in-usa-and-germany-20-discount-netdynamics24

skorupion

FTP to unused racknerd vps, that then are rcloned to a student one drive account

GOBBLES

There should be Backup Awareness ribbon

default

@snt said:
There should be Backup Awareness ribbon

No. Normally when you have a backup, you don't scream that it's a backup by putting a ribbon on it; otherwise hackers will try to compromise the backups too. Backups are meant to be kept in a special place, a secret place, a private space (it can even be an intimate place).

Take me for example. I backup my stash of Linux ISOs in a special encryption, otherwise someone could compromise it and get into my head. And believe me, you don't want to go in my head! @deank was once there and he's still amazed by the PMS I am going through.

Anyhow, always do backups. Make backups of backups. Hell! Even make backups of the backups from backups. And, whatever you do, do not keep all of your eggs in one basket, because you will not enjoy that kind of omelette.

caracal

my data is looking for a second home

No providers wanna do any storage deals? 2TB plus machines?

deank

What next? Backup is mandatory in this digital era.

Don't forget to breathe day?

Wolf

First thing we teach our new students each year... "No backup no mercy."

Unsurprisingly many don't take it seriously, till one of their fellow students gets an F for not handing in the assignments due to data-corruption or loss. That day and the following, there is always a steep increase in Google-Searches for "Backups".

Boogeyman

@caracal said: my data is looking for a second home

No providers wanna do any storage deals? 2TB plus machines?

Can you crack a deal @seriesn ?

default

Maybe some providers are not working on their backup time.

Daniel15

@caracal said: No providers wanna do any storage deals? 2TB plus machines?

Servarica's Black Friday deal (2 TB space, 2 GB RAM for $48/year) was extended at some point. https://servarica.com/clients/cart.php?gid=57 "Polar Bear Storage Offer". They also have 8 GB RAM + 8 TB space for $20/month. Servers are in Canada.

Disks aren't the speediest, but they're usable. Benchmarks show speeds slightly faster than my HostHatch VPS for small reads/writes but a bit slower for large reads/writes. YABS:

@Daniel15 said:

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Sat 26 Dec 2020 11:33:02 AM PST

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2593.548 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 1.9 GiB
Swap       : 988.0 MiB
Disk       : 1.9 TiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 27.98 MB/s    (6.9k) | 136.61 MB/s   (2.1k)
Write      | 28.01 MB/s    (7.0k) | 137.33 MB/s   (2.1k)
Total      | 56.00 MB/s   (14.0k) | 273.95 MB/s   (4.2k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 141.46 MB/s    (276) | 131.14 MB/s    (128)
Write      | 148.98 MB/s    (290) | 139.87 MB/s    (136)
Total      | 290.44 MB/s    (566) | 271.01 MB/s    (264)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 907 Mbits/sec   | 934 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 913 Mbits/sec   | 925 Mbits/sec
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 952 Mbits/sec   | 932 Mbits/sec
Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 575 Mbits/sec   | 33.2 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.01 Gbits/sec  | 974 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 977 Mbits/sec   | 962 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 966 Mbits/sec   | 943 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | 507 Mbits/sec   | 788 Mbits/sec

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 954 Mbits/sec   | 917 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 614 Mbits/sec   | 912 Mbits/sec
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 922 Mbits/sec   | 912 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 1.01 Gbits/sec  | 959 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 906 Mbits/sec   | 921 Mbits/sec

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 502
Multi Core      | 973
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/5543515

Edit: Also, HostHatch 512 MB RAM, 250 GB space, 3 TB monthly transfer for $18 per year is still available for the next 24 hours. https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/170708/storage-and-nvme-goodness/p1#Form_Comment

Daniel15

On my production servers I do nightly backups using Borgbackup and backupninja (both available in the standard Debian repos). I have two copies of the Borgbackup repo. I have storage VPSes with two providers (10TB with HostHatch in Los Angeles and 2TB with Servarica in Canada) - Backups go to the first one, then I rsync them to the second one. I also backup my personal PCs to the storage VPS.

I have Borgbackup configured in "append only" mode, so an attacker that obtains access to the SSH keys I use for backups isn't able to wipe the backups.

Jackma1

backup matters.