Tags: restic

How my data survived a corrupted hard drive

Published on September 10, 2020 in ✍️ Posts

… and what I’ve learned about backups and self-hosting my files.

Published on September 7, 2020 in 💬 Micro

I’m switching from Backblaze B2 to Scaleway’s Object Storage.

Published on June 27, 2020 in 💬 Micro

restic is my tool of choice to do backups. I’m just eagerly waiting for this a(a)wsome PR to get merged and a new version released! I’m backing up my Nextcloud (currently ~50 GB), but I never pruned the backup and now the backup is taking up more than 160 GB. That’s still just peanuts with Backblaze B2 as online storage, but I like to have things clean and tidy and a prune is overdue.

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Backup a dockerized Postgres database with Resticker

Published on April 23, 2020 in 👨‍💻 Dev

I got the question how to solve the problem that when backing up the storage of a dockerized Postgres database (using Resticker) it could be that the backup is corrupt because the database is still running.

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Automatically Backup Docker Volumes using restic

Published on June 11, 2019 in 👨‍💻 Dev

Updated on April 23, 2020

One of the most visited pages on my blog is about how to automatically backup Docker volumes. In that post I use the Docker image blacklabelops/volumerize. Unfortunately that image is deprecated since March 2019 and not longer maintained.

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