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submitted 1 year ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago

Timeshift creates a btrfs snapshot on each boot for me. And my server gets nightly borg backups.

[-] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Just a friendly reminder that BTRFS snapshots are not backups.

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. That's why I sync my important files to my nextcloud.

[-] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's good. You can also check out btrbk - it's a tool which can take snapshots for you, like Timeshift, but also back them up to somewhere.

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