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How do you backup?

I recently implemented a backup workflow for me. I heavily use restic for desktop backup and for a full system backup of my local server. It works amazingly good. I always have a versioned backup without a lot of redundant data. It is fast, encrypted and compressed.

But I wondered, how do you guys do your backups? What software do you use? How often do you do them and what workflow do you use for it?

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  • My work flow is pretty similar to yours:

    For my desktop and laptops: systemd timer and service that backups every 15 minutes using restic to my NAS.

    For my NAS : daily backup using restic + ZFS snapshots.

    All restic backups are then uploaded daily to Backblaze B2.

    • Do you create ZFS snapshots and let those be backed up to B2 via restic or do you backup different types of data, one with ZFS snapshots and one with restic?

      • Only restic snapshots are backed-up to B2. ZFS snapshots are for undoing mistakes, though I enabled them recently and I have yet to use them.

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