Where do you store your backups?

shadesofcyber

I am planning on backing up everything every 1-2 days via cronjob using the “backup_and_restore.sh” script.

Where do you guys usually store your backup? Considering the possibility of a malicious attack, it is probably not the smartest idea to just dump it somewhere on the VPS / dedicated server again.

But what other good and suitable options are there? Amazon S3 buckets?

DocFraggle

I put the backups on my NAS at home

shadesofcyber

DocFraggle I read about that too, however, a NAS costs between 150-300 bucks, therefore, I am looking for a cheaper alternative…

esackbauer

Google Drive is about 20$ per year for 100GB.

shadesofcyber

esackbauer Isn’t that problematic considering the fact that I’d need to use rclone to upload my backups to Google Drive, which would let a potential attacker (in case he gains access to my VPS) see and download everything from my Google Drive?

esackbauer

shadesofcyber Simply use a google account only for this mailcow backup. rclone can encrypt the backup data, too.

Ganzjahresgriller

Hetzner Storagebox, 1TB / € 3,81 Month

SebS

From your reply in this thread I’d guess that my method is a bit over-the-top fpr you:

I clone the entire docker container & data to a fallback VM in a different data center every night, so that even in the very unlikely case that the main server somehow ends up “broken beyond repair” some DNS changes will get the fallback up and running.

Apart from that, backups created with the on-board script go to rented storage space in two different data centers twice a day (via sshfs).

I wouldn’t do the clone-to-different-VM-part if it was only for private use, but even my private backups involve multiple offsite-backups.

DarkMatter

I too use a local NAS that I already had. Since cost is a concern, you could use any available local device instead of a NAS, even a Raspberry PI. In the long run, using a local device might prove more cost effective ;-)

disgustipated

I use the MC cold backup script to push to a local VM which only sits there as a disaster recovery. this vm is then backed up to my nas, which the nas then pushes an encrypted backup up to either google drive or backblaze. I use truenas for the nas storage which has backup jobs (which is actually rclone) where you can set the encryption of the backup at the destination you choose(like google drive or backblaze).