Tag: backup

Home Assistant Backups That Actually Restore

Home Assistant disaster recovery: off-site backups, secrets handling, Z2M coordinator, restore drills that catch missing pieces.

rclone Crypt: Encrypted Cloud Buckets That Stay Yours

Client-side encryption with rclone crypt keeps your cloud backups opaque to providers. Key management, filename encryption, and restore drills for B2, S3, Drive.

Cold Archive: B2 vs Storj vs Scaleway Glacier

Compare cold storage tiers: Backblaze B2, Storj decentralized cloud, and Scaleway Glacier. Pricing, egress, restore times, and which backup service wins.

Off-Site Encrypted Backup with rsync.net

Why rsync.net is the no-BS off-site backup target for Restic and Borg: SSH-only ZFS, real Unix support, and what 1.5 cents per GB per month actually costs.

Backup Workflow Patterns That Work

Backup patterns that survive disasters: snapshot, replication, off-site. Retention, safety, and the 3-2-1 model done right.

3-2-1-1-0: The Backup Strategy That Survives Ransomware

3-2-1 backups aren't enough anymore. The 3-2-1-1-0 rule adds immutable & offline copies plus verified restores, here's how to implement it.

Borgmatic: Borg Backup, Done Right

BorgBackup is great. Borgmatic makes you actually run it: config-driven schedules, hooks, healthchecks, and a backup system that pages you when it breaks.

Velero: K8s Backup and DR

Your cluster will fail. Velero captures everything, manifests, CRDs, persistent volumes, and lets you replay it on a fresh cluster. Setup, gotchas, real DR plans.

Borg vs Duplicacy: Dedup Backup Wars

Borg is open-source classic with SSH targets. Duplicacy has lock-free multi-source magic but commercial GUI. Here's which backup tool to pick.

rclone vs Restic: Sync vs Backup

rclone copies and syncs files to cloud storage. Restic does deduplicated encrypted snapshots. Confusing them costs you restores at 2 AM.

Backblaze B2 + rclone: Tiered Backup at Real-World Costs

Stop burning money on AWS egress fees. Here is how to build a real tiered backup strategy using Backblaze B2 plus rclone for your home lab setup in 2026.

Snapper for Btrfs Snapshots on Root Filesystems

Set up Snapper on Btrfs to auto-snapshot before every system update, roll back broken machines in minutes, and never lose a working root filesystem again.