TimeShift for Linux: ua-cam.com/video/U-lMJHcjCVs/v-deo.html Clone Any System: ua-cam.com/video/yQ9NpWZ74BU/v-deo.html How to Encrypt Cloud Storage: ua-cam.com/video/KBr_qf5G4CY/v-deo.html Synology Playlist: ua-cam.com/video/1EXyWD0cQYI/v-deo.html
I usually back them up in my trunk :) Seriously, you can never have too many backups - Usb sticks, external drives, online services, spare computers, etc.. Make sure you scan your files so you're not backing up malware also.
yes, with at least one major caveat - only if all those many things are using encrypted filesystems ensuring the data is safe from unauthorized access at rest. Otherwise you’re just throwing your stuff onto a bunch of storage media, some which you will forget and lose track of. Maybe I’m getting paranoid in my old age, but I’ve moved to encrypted filesystems (encrypted APFS & LUKS) for all of my personal gear. Downside if for example my pi with its LUKS direct attached drive gets rebooted, the disk can’t be auto mounted. OTOH, maybe that’s a feature so if it gets stolen, no one can open it.
Hey Chris, This year I also ventured into the 1621+ realm. Active backup PCs, Hyper-V environments, Drive sync files on all virtuals. Drive sync means I can work local and access the same files from other virtual machines - glorious! Hyper backup NAS to large USB drive, take that off-site for period of time. Then hyper backup to backup the local weekly backups and shares to Azure Blob storage. Such a great solution that just works. Don’t forget about all the log notifications that tells you what’s going on. I’ll never look back, such an awesome complete solution.
Used qnap for almost 3 years now jumped on synology - much better for sure. My backup strategy: Rsync over ssh my desktop /home dir to nas (it's in another location ~30 miles away) mon, wed and friday at 3am scheduled wol and crojob then power off itself Sync documents folder with synology drive across my other devices laptop and garage pc backup documents folder (encrypted) from nas to google drive every day 2am Snapshots on important shares on my nas and manual backups to usb hdd. Cloneziila to shh (my nas it's away from me)for bare metal, usually monthly but in reality ones few months :)
I use a Syno box for data backups, and for Quick recovery of entire Windows systems, I use Macrium reflect free edition. The backups can be restored to a VM, perfect if you need to rebuild a clients computer.
Useful and very important video! I detected why this week! Note that all my systems run ZFS and I also have in general 5 snapshots for each dataset. I have three backups and it is a typical poor man's solution: - A 2003 Pentium 4 HT (3.0 GHz) with 2 x 2 leftover HDDs in total 1.21 TB (3.5" IDE 250 & 320 GB and 2.5" SATA-1 2x320GB). It runs FreeBSD 13.0-RC4. - A Dec 2011 Intel i5-2520M with a 1TB SSHD, that died last week, temporary replaced by a spare 160GB HDD with limited backup. It now runs Ubuntu 21.04 Beta. - A Samsung Galaxy S4 with a 64GB micro-SD card. It has all my private stuff (photos, videos, docs, etc). I consider it my off-line backup. I run ZFS, because it has a far superior protection against all kinds of bad luck. - It did protect me after I had been hacked, and received a request for money. I simply rolled back to the snapshot of one month before the threatening Email and changed all my passwords and started using the Firefox master password. The hack came through Internet Browsing. I now use an almost completely isolated VM for browsing. - Last week after updating my laptop Ubuntu, my system did not boot anymore. After a while and after using GSmartControl, I detected that the SSHD started developing say ~70 more bad sectors during each test run. The SSHD is clearly dead, she only does not know it yet herself. The SSHD did say "recertified" on the side, so probably I bought a scam. I used it for ~4 years, but it only collected a few power-on months. The 160GB HDD, I reuse till the replacement is ordered and arrives, it is special for me. That HDD runs at ~35MB/s read and ~40MB/s write speeds, strangely read speeds are lower. It came with my new 2008 laptop running Windows Vista. That combination (crap HHD and immature OS) has been the main reason, I switched to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS :) 160GB is the biggest leftover disk I have, so I installed Ubuntu 21.04 Beta and backup my private stuff (~70GB) to it. It boots Ubuntu 21.04 in an almost acceptable minute. USE BACKUPS and preferably snapshots too!!!!!!!! Use ZFS :} :)
What's my favourite backup solution? Three actually: Nextcloud (self-hosted in the local network) on a standard x86_64 server made by off-the-shelf parts. I prefer using standard parts I can easily replace without the need to rely on a vendor-specific solution that might go extinct in a few years. I've burned my fingers on that before. Ain't going to repeat that again. Nextcloud (remotely at my office, accessed through VPN) Offline backup: External set of hard drives. that are only powered on and connected while syncing.
@@ChrisTitusTech hey Chris you should add remove xbox things as an option so some people can remove it and the script turned my laptop from bad to ok. (I have 2 hdd one with win 10 pro the other with linux mint i use linux way more often tho)
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with Nextcloud and hourly BTRFS snapshots. Hourly BTRFS snapshots on all by machines + sometimes an offline backup in a USB drive.
A good backup strategy uses the following formula: 3 Copies + 2 Different Media type + (1 Offsite + 1 Copy Offline) which will protect you from most eventualities. The explanation for this formula is: 3 Copy ( the original file, a backup copy, and an Offsite/offline copy); 2 Media Types ( 1 on disk and one on another media type (possibly in the cloud)); lastly 1 copy offsite + an offline copy (it is possible to combine these to make management easier). Do this and you will sleep better at night.
A very good and informative video, as always. But I think you forgot to say, "RAID is not a backup!". Just to make that clear to some guys. :) I'm using timeshift for my Linux boxes on a QNAP share, snapshots on the QNAP device, backups from QNAP to a Synology device and an encryptet rclone copy on a PCloud service.
Hey Chris-Kun, could you please elaborate on the estimated cost of a Synology-based backup solution like yours? also: the worst thing about cloud sync services is that they create more and more duplicate files over time (no matter which one, I had this issue with dropbox, google one, sugar sync, and one drive). up to the point where I would have to spend days and days of sorting and deleting dupes (and every time I tried to manage the situation it was so frustrating that I gave up at one point). i also had problems with data corruption on my google one drive.
Typically the entry units around $200-300, but I always go a step up to the $500 tier. I loved my 1019+ which was around 500 MSRP. The drives are always what gets you. I think I spend around $1300 for the 4x 16TB drives.
Thank you, great video. Mine is a home made server with Debian 10 and OMV for WebUI access but with SSH access too. At this moment is working as SMB/CIFS server in my house and without RAID LOL. But i have a secondary machine to get automatically the important files. Yes I need put more money in HDD's. I have to wait some time because... budget :)
Would have given a thumbs up just on "voluminous." :) Clonezilla is invaluable for backing up installed operating systems, cloning hard drives to newer, bigger ones. I have used it with USB 3.0 hard drive enclosures, and over my home network to my file server, usually via SSH. Back in my DOS/Windows9.x days, and even OS/2, I used ARJ with its chapter function. First chapter is fresh, working install, second chapter is that plus basic freeware apps and config changes, then add chapters to catch changes thereafter. Back then, floppies were sufficient for DOS and games, and CDs for Windows95/ME plus games. Now, I keep copies of personal pictures, ripped CDs and cassettes, and GOG install files and a few other things on a couple of 4TB drives in USB 3.0/ESATA enclosures. Every once in a while, I mirror my Steam library to one of them, but that can all be downloaded, it would just take a long time for the longer ones.
Synology seems very nice 👍 i use a raspberry pi with 2 hdds in btrfs raid 1 and borg backup on it. The same setup is at another house to do off site backups.
no Linux client, but that aside, the most balanced solution to ease/automation vs security I’ve found is Arq for my Mac. I had Mozy, but they started charging way more. Had Backblaze but their customer service turns out to be garbage when there’s an actual issue. Blamed my browser cookies for a NaN JS problem in their website, and basically shrugged when my entire backup got corrupted/trashed on their side when I was migrating to a new computer. Arq offers S3-like cloud storage now, but is otherwise entirely client-side driven. You buy the app one time like traditional software, then mix, match and choose what you want from among a boatload of storage options - local, any S3 compatible, GCP, Dropbox etc. I use local (~4 hrs) and a cloud provider (daily). Do local, AWS, Google _and_ OneDrive if you like. You pay storage provider, Arq has no involvement. Everything is encrypted locally before leaving, and the cloud provider has no relation to or awareness of Arq. It’s just encrypted data to them. Scheduling is your choice, can set cost budgets, storage tiers if available. I have a few UI/UX gripes where things are more difficult than necessary but overall I dig the independence and freedom to do it how I want without needing to trust Backblaze et al not to snoop and not to fail their one job.
Used both extensively! I find Synology has a leg up on utility, but QNAP has a great VPN setup. I really dig that they toss everything in an inline file when using OpenVPN.
QNAP on their small boxes is only ext4 and md raid, which is "fine" but not ideal for a backup system. QNAP is starting to do zfs on their business side devices. Synology used to be ext4 but are now all in on btrfs on all their current devices, so there's some more stuff you can do there. TrueNAS/FreeNAS is all zfs on freebsd, the downside there is hardware compatibility with diy hardware, but they have finished units they sell. Personally I just buy 5-10 yr old refurb servers that have 12 bays in them, you can get them for almost nothing fully kitted out. A server like that which would have cost 8-10k back then, only costs a few hundred now and can still saturate spinning rust storage. Then I just load linux on it... why bother with some web gui silly nas thing? Otherwise, TrueNAS is probably the best option, with Synology a close second, but you might be able to get Synology for a better $/tb.
I back up to a Linux computer that isn't used for anything else other than FTP for security camera capture. It can be accessed from any computer on the network through Samba with password protection. I've used it to restore my files from one crash so far, where the video software for a GPU crashed the OS. What may have saved me from using the backups on the other Linux computer is to use a separate drive in the computer that crashed for the data, since most of the time it is the OS that crashes. This can be done with both Linux and Windoze, but with Windoze you lose some security, which you don't have much of anyway. With Linux the other drive can be password protected.
Hey Chris!! great videos, you're one of the main UA-camrs that convinced me to venture out into Linux(mainly Arch hahahaa). I saw the 'backups'... can you do a video on how to backup, or migrate a linux system? I'd like to see which files, etc needs to be copied over/migrated. Thanks
Timeshift for regular multiple generation system backup to the data drives, /home. Manual rsync to backup both system and data to the external usb-attached HDD. Timeshift in rsync mode doesn’t keep hard links, and doesn’t cover HDD failure in my case, so manual rsync with -H option is basically better. However Timeshift is good for periodical, fast, background, and multi-generation system backup to me. :)
I've never used cloud services for backups, but only to host files online that I wish to share with other people. All my backups are in local hardware.
Keep in mind rsync doesn't do versioning, you can get one copy, which is certainly better than nothing. However if that's all you are doing then you are likely open to rsync mirroring deletions as well, so you accidentally rm -Rf * in the wrong place at the wrong time, and rsync wipes your backup. If your rsync destination is running zfs, btrfs, or lvm you can do snapshots on a schedule, giving you protection from this. Even better if you are running zfs on both sides and just using zfs send instead. My volume does 4 rolling snapshots every 15 mins, then 48 hourlys, 14 dailys, and 3 monthlys. Snapshotting like this on a CoW filesystem is basically free performance wise since the cost is baked into the CoW architecture, so if you are using something like zfs or btr, you might as well be doing it.
All my machines are virtual, and their volumes are actually ZFS datasets. I use sanoid and syncoid to snapshot and sync to a separate zfs storage system.
I use Macrium Reflect 7 and I backup my files and I create disk image of my windows box. I store that kind of stuff on 2 external 14TB hdd. I also use Backblaze. It’s part of my 321 backup strategy
@Richard Peddie I use Syncbackpro also to sync my files. I’m gonna look at Goodsync. Syncing files is great but in case of a virus or ransomware you can get screw big time.
@Richard Peddie I really like the Macrium files backup feature. I also use the full, increments and differential backup schedule. I feel safe right now with my backup strategy.
I have a couple external USB drives that I use for backups. I use rsnapshot to do the actual backing up with a couple little shell scripts to manage it. I only backup the actual data plus configuration files for services. I have it set up to keep 50 generations of backups so I can retrieve files from quite a while ago. I run the backup script by hand every couple weeks since it takes less than 5 minutes to run on about 300G of data. Rsnapshot only physically copies files that have been modified since the last backup.
Great Video! Do you compress some of your files before backup or leave it as it is? For example, files that you keep as a record and you will no longer work with them. and another question... when to do a full, incremental and/or differential backups?
Backups are not lame, like some suggests, My Synology has RAID10 (4 bay) and got daily backups to a external HD with eSATA controller, and these are great gear. Not cheap, but good.
I've been watching dozens of NAS videos, only one person had a good backup system. They had two identical NAS at two different locations that would sync over the internet. Wouldn't work at my house though, my internet speed is only 2 mb per second and is shared by my whole family LOL.
raid 5 is not considered safe for large (>1tb) disks, especially when combined with identical disks. Over the year's, back when raid 5 was more popular I actually did have a few clients that lost a second disk in the rebuild. You want a set of striped mirrors ideally, or otherwise double or triple parity if performance doesn't matter. On linux with zfs backups are basically a totally integrated and solved issue, you can use zfs send to another device complete with snapshots, datasets can be encrypted and compressed, and the receiving system doesn't need the encryption key to manage snapshots, so the normal process of consolidation of incremental is simple and fast. I imagine you can do the same with btrfs, which is what synology uses, but I don't have much knowledge on that yet. On windows, or any workstation for that matter, ideally you just wouldn't have any data you care about directly on them and connect over the network. If for no reason other than whatever hardware you have on that for storage is probably quite inferior in terms of safety, and potentially speed as well.
just glanced at a couple things, btrfs still doesn't support filesystem level encryption, so the only option there is disk level encryption. As such untrusted remote versioning with btrfs is not a thing.
I have multiple Qnap and Thecus boxes for shares and backup purposes and I have other boxes which I keep in storage and bring onsite weekend to clone the boxes onsite.
Great video, Chris! 100 Terabytes??!! That's like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, etc. bytes! To think I make backups on DVDs and USB sticks! (I'm not running a major network by any stretch).
I do see where you are coming from. Mine go into a fireproof safe that is on a separate computer from the one I use as my daily driver. I do plan on putting the computer in a shed that I am building, which has data conduit to it, and will also have power for the computer I use for backups.
A bit late but I am setting up a blueray backup system with actual disks for the most important data, as for now I am using 2 drives in a zfs config :)
Thank you for your Videos Chris, I would love to see a video in regards to creating your own NAS. Personally I use an open source backup solution called URBACKUP. Works like a charm on Linux and Windows both.
Hi Chris, your videos always really in dep[th and well done. But I must admit, some stuff is just over my head. I currently have an unraid server setup, and I want to backup two specific drives from my desktop to that unraid server. I watched your rsync video, but I didn't follow along very well. Is there any dumby proof solution you would recommend? Also, I want some automation that would reflect changes made to those drives in the desktop.
Great video! I'm looking for an inexpensive (preferably free) backup solution for a SINGLE Windows 10 system with 6 user accounts. I prefer to use local storage (either a USB connected external hard drive or a NAS) vs cloud storage. However, what's most important to me is taking periodic system image backups, such that if I need to replace the hard drive, I can restore the entire system at once, as well as taking periodic weekly/monthly backups of all the user accounts. Any suggestions or recommendations? Thanks for posting this video!!! I think another great video would be a "deep dive" into verifying your backups actually work.
Doing exactly what you do. A bare-metal backup of my virtual PC to Synology NAS. And as I‘m already use DSM 7 BETA, it‘s even possible to do same bare-metal backups of certain Linux machines. The Active Backup Folder is then replicated to a second NAS and as 3rd security, backuped via Hyper Backup to Synology C2 Cloud. Does this sound crazy?🤔
Can you help me by discussing a good routine? For a tech guy? In school? And how android, windows, iPad, and Ubuntu can assist to make the routine easier? So it would be a good routine from a software perspective for a single guy in college full time. I have ASD, and this would be helpful for me. Mine don't work yet.
Hi Chris, what do you think about my backup? Im using an old hp workstation (pentium 4) with openmediavault and 4 - 2tb drive's in raid 10 (software raid) and i backup there about 1tb of mainly documents - with a software that is on a virtual server just for the backups - and some vmware drives. I have added 2 - 1gb lan cards and it works pretty fast for such an old cpu. I know its not great but it gets the job done in the end and i keep a backup on usb drive too.
Chris do you know how to fix this. I've been trying my best but to no avail. 0024:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\wineusb": c0000142 libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast X Error of failed request: GLXBadContext Major opcode of failed request: 151 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 6 (X_GLXIsDirect) Serial number of failed request: 202 Current serial number in output stream: 201
I have a synology 5 bay nas should I use raid 10 or shr or shr-2 synology hybrid raid as I have look on the net and can find much about synology hybrid raid
I just got my Unraid server setup last week. IDK if this is considered backup, but I sync my files which I want to be able to access from multiple devices. Then I use regular windows backup to unraid server for other important things which dont need to be accessed from other devices.
Hey chris a while ago, I switched from windows to ubuntu (dual boot) and I had to disable bitlocker. I didn't even knew what was that. As I understand is in case someone steals my laptop my hard drive is encrypted. What can I do from linux to have my harddrive (windows partition and ubuntu) encrypted?
So floppy disks are not enough in 2021? I have it easy with the amount of data I actually consider valuable... - I don't game - I don't have movies on disk - I have 7 TB+ in storage + 2 TB on laptop and I hardly use 1 TB total on both devices The data I consider valuable is mostly code or 3D models, which are synchronized between my PC, laptop and remote RasPi storage at my parents via SyncThing. The SyncThing actually has another share, which is for daily back-up (I run a script to move the files from working folders to daily back-ups, which gets synced before I shut down my computer). I also have all my code in GitHub as well (using at least two branches for active and daily merges, even for the tiniest projects) as on one USB stick and one microSD card I carry with me all the time I'm not at comp (got a simple script to do those back ups on demand, which I run every time I step away from computer). I use 128 GB ones and when those fill up, I simply mail them to my sister. So basically, I have: - Two local copies, - Two copies at my parents - Two copies on my person - One copy on GitHub - And old on person copies at my sister's Paranoid? You bet! I've lost files due to disk failures, connection drops (back in modem days) and even due to bad firmware on a new USB stick.
Mine would be Synology but as long as I've had a computer, all I do is move stuff to an external hard drive. Maybe one day I will have enough money to afford fancy things. I just hope that in the meantime, nothing happens, even though I know some day it will, and that's going to be a very bad day.
PLEASE HELP :: I am sick and tired of windows 10. there is a program called svchost.exe , it always start some process like service host : network and background intelligent transfer service etc and consumed all my internet data... please help me..
Chris, sad to say that "The cloud" vs backup tapes .....yes backup tapes. It's cheaper than the cloud. For a company like the one I work for. We store around 300GB per night. x 5 days a week. x 250 working day a year. And under federal law ...we have to store 7 years of information. 400 -500 dollars per month....No biggie. retrieval of information needed 1 to 12 hours. sending information back and forth between us and say AWS.....over high speed connections .....8 to 10 hours, to a data center 1300 to 1600 miles away...OUCH !!! New Horizons sent information from Pluto faster.... Even with a local center, it's freaky slow, and more money. In some cases. Also, Dropbox admins were arrested for looking at private company information about *****muffled**** years back. The Customer information we have...would be a huge goldmine to someone. At home, A Dell R-610 with 6TB of space. But I am thinking about a Synology RS 820+ Rack mount.with 16TB of drive space.
So true, tapes are very cheap and still widely used. I remember going to a security conference and the keynote told a story. Rouge IT admin, deleted all their AWS and local servers... But by chance, there were some old tapes that had a majority of the company and saved them from ruin. In the same conference they said the following which still holds true today... "The worst virus for any company is dropbox."
@@zaubermaus8190 Typically you do a rotation, but in today's world a lot of it is just used once for the backup and tossed in a secure location. That said, I did have a client over a decade ago use the same tape every night and ended up wearing out the magnetic headers (essentially wiping out the tape) and ruining it within a year or two.
Ha, it is why disaster backups exist. Having things just in the cloud or just local is flawed design. That is why I showed how I do my DR as well. In the video, I mention what happens if my house burns down.
Macrium free, and a old shitty 500gb USB HDd drive, is all your need. My pc is pretty nice, but do not overlook this back up setup , saved me couple times
I back up all my school stuff and documents onto my own physical Nextcloud server. That server is also running timeshift on btrfs for snapshots, and I'm thinking of backing up the files on its main drive to other drives on that box. The way I tested this was when my laptop died and I didn't have any computer on me that worked with nvme SSDs. All my other computers are also running timeshift btrfs snapshots and have my entire nextcloud synced to them, so if the server goes down I'll have nextcloud backups on all my PCs.
TimeShift for Linux: ua-cam.com/video/U-lMJHcjCVs/v-deo.html
Clone Any System: ua-cam.com/video/yQ9NpWZ74BU/v-deo.html
How to Encrypt Cloud Storage: ua-cam.com/video/KBr_qf5G4CY/v-deo.html
Synology Playlist: ua-cam.com/video/1EXyWD0cQYI/v-deo.html
I usually back them up in my trunk :) Seriously, you can never have too many backups - Usb sticks, external drives, online services, spare computers, etc.. Make sure you scan your files so you're not backing up malware also.
Then you plug in the external drives. Make a copy to a live service. Then have 3 copies of the same data on the same system
yes, with at least one major caveat - only if all those many things are using encrypted filesystems ensuring the data is safe from unauthorized access at rest. Otherwise you’re just throwing your stuff onto a bunch of storage media, some which you will forget and lose track of. Maybe I’m getting paranoid in my old age, but I’ve moved to encrypted filesystems (encrypted APFS & LUKS) for all of my personal gear.
Downside if for example my pi with its LUKS direct attached drive gets rebooted, the disk can’t be auto mounted. OTOH, maybe that’s a feature so if it gets stolen, no one can open it.
Two videos in two days LET'S GOOOO!!!!!
I just take the hard drive, take it to the copy machines, and make three paper copies.
Oh, and I use rclone.
Cardboard stock works best.
An important point is to keep off-site backups. Having your data on multiple local machine doesn't really help if your house burns down.
That's why many businesses have off-site backup elsewhere. Same for people putting DVD, CD or USB in a safety deposit box at a bank.
OVH: *sweats*
Hey Chris, This year I also ventured into the 1621+ realm. Active backup PCs, Hyper-V environments, Drive sync files on all virtuals. Drive sync means I can work local and access the same files from other virtual machines - glorious! Hyper backup NAS to large USB drive, take that off-site for period of time. Then hyper backup to backup the local weekly backups and shares to Azure Blob storage. Such a great solution that just works. Don’t forget about all the log notifications that tells you what’s going on. I’ll never look back, such an awesome complete solution.
Thank you, Chris. TimeShift for the system, rsync on a cron job for home dir to another internal drive. (On some boxen to external drives.)
A great solution and what I use for my Linux boxes!
Used qnap for almost 3 years now jumped on synology - much better for sure. My backup strategy:
Rsync over ssh my desktop /home dir to nas (it's in another location ~30 miles away) mon, wed and friday at 3am scheduled wol and crojob then power off itself
Sync documents folder with synology drive across my other devices laptop and garage pc
backup documents folder (encrypted) from nas to google drive every day 2am
Snapshots on important shares on my nas and manual backups to usb hdd.
Cloneziila to shh (my nas it's away from me)for bare metal, usually monthly but in reality ones few months :)
I use a Syno box for data backups, and for Quick recovery of entire Windows systems, I use Macrium reflect free edition. The backups can be restored to a VM, perfect if you need to rebuild a clients computer.
Useful and very important video! I detected why this week! Note that all my systems run ZFS and I also have in general 5 snapshots for each dataset.
I have three backups and it is a typical poor man's solution:
- A 2003 Pentium 4 HT (3.0 GHz) with 2 x 2 leftover HDDs in total 1.21 TB (3.5" IDE 250 & 320 GB and 2.5" SATA-1 2x320GB). It runs FreeBSD 13.0-RC4.
- A Dec 2011 Intel i5-2520M with a 1TB SSHD, that died last week, temporary replaced by a spare 160GB HDD with limited backup. It now runs Ubuntu 21.04 Beta.
- A Samsung Galaxy S4 with a 64GB micro-SD card. It has all my private stuff (photos, videos, docs, etc). I consider it my off-line backup.
I run ZFS, because it has a far superior protection against all kinds of bad luck.
- It did protect me after I had been hacked, and received a request for money. I simply rolled back to the snapshot of one month before the threatening Email and changed all my passwords and started using the Firefox master password. The hack came through Internet Browsing. I now use an almost completely isolated VM for browsing.
- Last week after updating my laptop Ubuntu, my system did not boot anymore. After a while and after using GSmartControl, I detected that the SSHD started developing say ~70 more bad sectors during each test run. The SSHD is clearly dead, she only does not know it yet herself.
The SSHD did say "recertified" on the side, so probably I bought a scam. I used it for ~4 years, but it only collected a few power-on months.
The 160GB HDD, I reuse till the replacement is ordered and arrives, it is special for me. That HDD runs at ~35MB/s read and ~40MB/s write speeds, strangely read speeds are lower. It came with my new 2008 laptop running Windows Vista. That combination (crap HHD and immature OS) has been the main reason, I switched to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS :) 160GB is the biggest leftover disk I have, so I installed Ubuntu 21.04 Beta and backup my private stuff (~70GB) to it. It boots Ubuntu 21.04 in an almost acceptable minute.
USE BACKUPS and preferably snapshots too!!!!!!!! Use ZFS :} :)
What's my favourite backup solution?
Three actually:
Nextcloud (self-hosted in the local network) on a standard x86_64 server made by off-the-shelf parts. I prefer using standard parts I can easily replace without the need to rely on a vendor-specific solution that might go extinct in a few years. I've burned my fingers on that before. Ain't going to repeat that again.
Nextcloud (remotely at my office, accessed through VPN)
Offline backup: External set of hard drives. that are only powered on and connected while syncing.
Nextcloud is a fantastic solution if you are going to self host.
Hey Chris, great video, off topic, but when can we expect to see an update to your Windows 10 debloater script ?
Next week!
@@ChrisTitusTech hey Chris you should add remove xbox things as an option so some people can remove it and the script turned my laptop from bad to ok.
(I have 2 hdd one with win 10 pro the other with linux mint i use linux way more often tho)
Awesome, will be looking forward to it!
What hdd would you recommend while aiming for the best installation and what would be the minimum hdd's to install while intending to add more....?
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with Nextcloud and hourly BTRFS snapshots. Hourly BTRFS snapshots on all by machines + sometimes an offline backup in a USB drive.
Synology FTW!
Terrific boxes and they have a lot of enterprise options as you go higher up in tier.
A good backup strategy uses the following formula: 3 Copies + 2 Different Media type + (1 Offsite + 1 Copy Offline) which will protect you from most eventualities.
The explanation for this formula is: 3 Copy ( the original file, a backup copy, and an Offsite/offline copy); 2 Media Types ( 1 on disk and one on another media type (possibly in the cloud)); lastly 1 copy offsite + an offline copy (it is possible to combine these to make management easier). Do this and you will sleep better at night.
A very good and informative video, as always. But I think you forgot to say, "RAID is not a backup!". Just to make that clear to some guys. :) I'm using timeshift for my Linux boxes on a QNAP share, snapshots on the QNAP device, backups from QNAP to a Synology device and an encryptet rclone copy on a PCloud service.
Hey Chris-Kun, could you please elaborate on the estimated cost of a Synology-based backup solution like yours?
also: the worst thing about cloud sync services is that they create more and more duplicate files over time (no matter which one, I had this issue with dropbox, google one, sugar sync, and one drive). up to the point where I would have to spend days and days of sorting and deleting dupes (and every time I tried to manage the situation it was so frustrating that I gave up at one point). i also had problems with data corruption on my google one drive.
Typically the entry units around $200-300, but I always go a step up to the $500 tier. I loved my 1019+ which was around 500 MSRP.
The drives are always what gets you. I think I spend around $1300 for the 4x 16TB drives.
Thank you, great video. Mine is a home made server with Debian 10 and OMV for WebUI access but with SSH access too. At this moment is working as SMB/CIFS server in my house and without RAID LOL. But i have a secondary machine to get automatically the important files. Yes I need put more money in HDD's. I have to wait some time because... budget :)
Would have given a thumbs up just on "voluminous." :) Clonezilla is invaluable for backing up installed operating systems, cloning hard drives to newer, bigger ones. I have used it with USB 3.0 hard drive enclosures, and over my home network to my file server, usually via SSH. Back in my DOS/Windows9.x days, and even OS/2, I used ARJ with its chapter function. First chapter is fresh, working install, second chapter is that plus basic freeware apps and config changes, then add chapters to catch changes thereafter. Back then, floppies were sufficient for DOS and games, and CDs for Windows95/ME plus games. Now, I keep copies of personal pictures, ripped CDs and cassettes, and GOG install files and a few other things on a couple of 4TB drives in USB 3.0/ESATA enclosures. Every once in a while, I mirror my Steam library to one of them, but that can all be downloaded, it would just take a long time for the longer ones.
Synology seems very nice 👍 i use a raspberry pi with 2 hdds in btrfs raid 1 and borg backup on it. The same setup is at another house to do off site backups.
I dig the setup. BTRFS gets a bad rap on its RAID from the early days, but RAID 1 has always been rock solid on it.
no Linux client, but that aside, the most balanced solution to ease/automation vs security I’ve found is Arq for my Mac. I had Mozy, but they started charging way more. Had Backblaze but their customer service turns out to be garbage when there’s an actual issue. Blamed my browser cookies for a NaN JS problem in their website, and basically shrugged when my entire backup got corrupted/trashed on their side when I was migrating to a new computer.
Arq offers S3-like cloud storage now, but is otherwise entirely client-side driven. You buy the app one time like traditional software, then mix, match and choose what you want from among a boatload of storage options - local, any S3 compatible, GCP, Dropbox etc. I use local (~4 hrs) and a cloud provider (daily). Do local, AWS, Google _and_ OneDrive if you like. You pay storage provider, Arq has no involvement. Everything is encrypted locally before leaving, and the cloud provider has no relation to or awareness of Arq. It’s just encrypted data to them. Scheduling is your choice, can set cost budgets, storage tiers if available. I have a few UI/UX gripes where things are more difficult than necessary but overall I dig the independence and freedom to do it how I want without needing to trust Backblaze et al not to snoop and not to fail their one job.
That was a nice look into how it is done. Good video, thank you!
Awesome video, Chris! I think a lot of people would be happy with Synology devices if they give them a try!
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Great vid! Exactly what I needed to make an informed decision on a Synology box of my own
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I personally love my QNAP but basically the same thing. Great video...
Used both extensively! I find Synology has a leg up on utility, but QNAP has a great VPN setup. I really dig that they toss everything in an inline file when using OpenVPN.
QNAP on their small boxes is only ext4 and md raid, which is "fine" but not ideal for a backup system. QNAP is starting to do zfs on their business side devices. Synology used to be ext4 but are now all in on btrfs on all their current devices, so there's some more stuff you can do there. TrueNAS/FreeNAS is all zfs on freebsd, the downside there is hardware compatibility with diy hardware, but they have finished units they sell. Personally I just buy 5-10 yr old refurb servers that have 12 bays in them, you can get them for almost nothing fully kitted out. A server like that which would have cost 8-10k back then, only costs a few hundred now and can still saturate spinning rust storage. Then I just load linux on it... why bother with some web gui silly nas thing? Otherwise, TrueNAS is probably the best option, with Synology a close second, but you might be able to get Synology for a better $/tb.
I back up to a Linux computer that isn't used for anything else other than FTP for security camera capture. It can be accessed from any computer on the network through Samba with password protection. I've used it to restore my files from one crash so far, where the video software for a GPU crashed the OS.
What may have saved me from using the backups on the other Linux computer is to use a separate drive in the computer that crashed for the data, since most of the time it is the OS that crashes. This can be done with both Linux and Windoze, but with Windoze you lose some security, which you don't have much of anyway. With Linux the other drive can be password protected.
Hey Chris!! great videos, you're one of the main UA-camrs that convinced me to venture out into Linux(mainly Arch hahahaa). I saw the 'backups'... can you do a video on how to backup, or migrate a linux system? I'd like to see which files, etc needs to be copied over/migrated. Thanks
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Awesome vid. Could you do a guide on a DIY Synology NAS?
Nice, I JUST got myself the same synology box. planning on 8x4TB with raid6
Timeshift for regular multiple generation system backup to the data drives, /home.
Manual rsync to backup both system and data to the external usb-attached HDD.
Timeshift in rsync mode doesn’t keep hard links, and doesn’t cover HDD failure in my case, so manual rsync with -H option is basically better.
However Timeshift is good for periodical, fast, background, and multi-generation system backup to me. :)
I've never used cloud services for backups, but only to host files online that I wish to share with other people. All my backups are in local hardware.
I'm a backup NUT.
Timeshift local. NAS backup. rsync NAS backup of backup. USB backup in bank safety deposit box updated every 3 months.
I'm planning on rsyncing all my stuff to a 1tb hdd
Only 1TB you have no data at all.
Yes i have very less data.
@That Guy Just storing all the family videos and photos alone takes up a ton of space.
I bought an 1Tb hard drive as well. I would have done it on tape, but that is rather expensive sollution.
Keep in mind rsync doesn't do versioning, you can get one copy, which is certainly better than nothing. However if that's all you are doing then you are likely open to rsync mirroring deletions as well, so you accidentally rm -Rf * in the wrong place at the wrong time, and rsync wipes your backup. If your rsync destination is running zfs, btrfs, or lvm you can do snapshots on a schedule, giving you protection from this. Even better if you are running zfs on both sides and just using zfs send instead. My volume does 4 rolling snapshots every 15 mins, then 48 hourlys, 14 dailys, and 3 monthlys. Snapshotting like this on a CoW filesystem is basically free performance wise since the cost is baked into the CoW architecture, so if you are using something like zfs or btr, you might as well be doing it.
All my machines are virtual, and their volumes are actually ZFS datasets. I use sanoid and syncoid to snapshot and sync to a separate zfs storage system.
I use Macrium Reflect 7 and I backup my files and I create disk image of my windows box. I store that kind of stuff on 2 external 14TB hdd. I also use Backblaze. It’s part of my 321 backup strategy
@Richard Peddie I use Syncbackpro also to sync my files. I’m gonna look at Goodsync. Syncing files is great but in case of a virus or ransomware you can get screw big time.
@Richard Peddie I really like the Macrium files backup feature. I also use the full, increments and differential backup schedule. I feel safe right now with my backup strategy.
I have a couple external USB drives that I use for backups. I use rsnapshot to do the actual backing up with a couple little shell scripts to manage it. I only backup the actual data plus configuration files for services. I have it set up to keep 50 generations of backups so I can retrieve files from quite a while ago. I run the backup script by hand every couple weeks since it takes less than 5 minutes to run on about 300G of data. Rsnapshot only physically copies files that have been modified since the last backup.
Great Video!
Do you compress some of your files before backup or leave it as it is?
For example, files that you keep as a record and you will no longer work with them.
and another question... when to do a full, incremental and/or differential backups?
Backups are not lame, like some suggests, My Synology has RAID10 (4 bay) and got daily backups to a external HD with eSATA controller, and these are great gear. Not cheap, but good.
I've been watching dozens of NAS videos, only one person had a good backup system. They had two identical NAS at two different locations that would sync over the internet. Wouldn't work at my house though, my internet speed is only 2 mb per second and is shared by my whole family LOL.
raid 5 is not considered safe for large (>1tb) disks, especially when combined with identical disks. Over the year's, back when raid 5 was more popular I actually did have a few clients that lost a second disk in the rebuild. You want a set of striped mirrors ideally, or otherwise double or triple parity if performance doesn't matter. On linux with zfs backups are basically a totally integrated and solved issue, you can use zfs send to another device complete with snapshots, datasets can be encrypted and compressed, and the receiving system doesn't need the encryption key to manage snapshots, so the normal process of consolidation of incremental is simple and fast. I imagine you can do the same with btrfs, which is what synology uses, but I don't have much knowledge on that yet. On windows, or any workstation for that matter, ideally you just wouldn't have any data you care about directly on them and connect over the network. If for no reason other than whatever hardware you have on that for storage is probably quite inferior in terms of safety, and potentially speed as well.
just glanced at a couple things, btrfs still doesn't support filesystem level encryption, so the only option there is disk level encryption. As such untrusted remote versioning with btrfs is not a thing.
Although I have mirrored NAS, I still use tape for 4th line backup and archive. Currently an LTO6 autoloader
I have multiple Qnap and Thecus boxes for shares and backup purposes and I have other boxes which I keep in storage and bring onsite weekend to clone the boxes onsite.
Great video, Chris!
100 Terabytes??!! That's like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, etc. bytes!
To think I make backups on DVDs and USB sticks! (I'm not running a major network by any stretch).
"If all your backup is in the same building, you have no backup"
I do see where you are coming from. Mine go into a fireproof safe that is on a separate computer from the one I use as my daily driver. I do plan on putting the computer in a shed that I am building, which has data conduit to it, and will also have power for the computer I use for backups.
A bit late but I am setting up a blueray backup system with actual disks for the most important data,
as for now I am using 2 drives in a zfs config :)
Self build freenas/trurnas machine
Thank you for your Videos Chris, I would love to see a video in regards to creating your own NAS. Personally I use an open source backup solution called URBACKUP. Works like a charm on Linux and Windows both.
Hi Chris, your videos always really in dep[th and well done. But I must admit, some stuff is just over my head. I currently have an unraid server setup, and I want to backup two specific drives from my desktop to that unraid server. I watched your rsync video, but I didn't follow along very well. Is there any dumby proof solution you would recommend?
Also, I want some automation that would reflect changes made to those drives in the desktop.
I have one of these boxes. Its the best.
Hey Chris Great Video!
I wanted to ask what network switch you are running with your Synology and if you are using LACP?
Great video! I'm looking for an inexpensive (preferably free) backup solution for a SINGLE Windows 10 system with 6 user accounts. I prefer to use local storage (either a USB connected external hard drive or a NAS) vs cloud storage. However, what's most important to me is taking periodic system image backups, such that if I need to replace the hard drive, I can restore the entire system at once, as well as taking periodic weekly/monthly backups of all the user accounts. Any suggestions or recommendations? Thanks for posting this video!!! I think another great video would be a "deep dive" into verifying your backups actually work.
Interesting video Chris!
Doing exactly what you do. A bare-metal backup of my virtual PC to Synology NAS. And as I‘m already use DSM 7 BETA, it‘s even possible to do same bare-metal backups of certain Linux machines. The Active Backup Folder is then replicated to a second NAS and as 3rd security, backuped via Hyper Backup to Synology C2 Cloud. Does this sound crazy?🤔
Can you help me by discussing a good routine? For a tech guy? In school? And how android, windows, iPad, and Ubuntu can assist to make the routine easier? So it would be a good routine from a software perspective for a single guy in college full time. I have ASD, and this would be helpful for me. Mine don't work yet.
How are you using Active back up with SMR file system ? Mine says I have to have BTFS soo I can't do snapshots or run active backup.
I gotta say I've learned a bat shit ton about IT from you, and I've been in IT for 20 years. Lol :) keep.up.the good work and keep them vids coming.
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Hi Chris, what do you think about my backup? Im using an old hp workstation (pentium 4) with openmediavault and 4 - 2tb drive's in raid 10 (software raid) and i backup there about 1tb of mainly documents - with a software that is on a virtual server just for the backups - and some vmware drives. I have added 2 - 1gb lan cards and it works pretty fast for such an old cpu. I know its not great but it gets the job done in the end and i keep a backup on usb drive too.
With the "old" HP, you have the added feature that it will reboot after a power failure.
@@computer_freedom yeah thats true but i have a rack hp ups 1200w and a 5kw inverter with 6 hour's battery so i think that part is covered
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I love it. :)
Chris do you know how to fix this. I've been trying my best but to no avail.
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I have a synology 5 bay nas should I use raid 10 or shr or shr-2 synology hybrid raid as I have look on the net and can find much about synology hybrid raid
I just got my Unraid server setup last week. IDK if this is considered backup, but I sync my files which I want to be able to access from multiple devices. Then I use regular windows backup to unraid server for other important things which dont need to be accessed from other devices.
I back up my stuff to external HDD's, Qnap with Qsync and OneDrive. I don't care if people look at my files i just don't want to lose them
How do install the virtual machine? I can't find it in the packages.
Hi Chris, I'm new to Arch Linux. currently using manjaro. can you please do a tutorial on how to automount a Synology network drive?
Is there a solution like a app / VPN, by which I can access my synology box over the internet?
Really helpful! Thanks.
Back that thang up
Can a timeshift backup be put on a fresh drive and boot?
I have Asus route, it have feature of backup. I haven't tried it yet.
It backup files to usb drive connected to it
Hey chris a while ago, I switched from windows to ubuntu (dual boot) and I had to disable bitlocker. I didn't even knew what was that. As I understand is in case someone steals my laptop my hard drive is encrypted. What can I do from linux to have my harddrive (windows partition and ubuntu) encrypted?
meah, I'm old school,
4 backups for all my important files keept on 4 hdds on 4 different locations. Everything offline.
Does a backup like you have protect you from ransomware?
So floppy disks are not enough in 2021?
I have it easy with the amount of data I actually consider valuable...
- I don't game
- I don't have movies on disk
- I have 7 TB+ in storage + 2 TB on laptop and I hardly use 1 TB total on both devices
The data I consider valuable is mostly code or 3D models, which are synchronized between my PC, laptop and remote RasPi storage at my parents via SyncThing. The SyncThing actually has another share, which is for daily back-up (I run a script to move the files from working folders to daily back-ups, which gets synced before I shut down my computer).
I also have all my code in GitHub as well (using at least two branches for active and daily merges, even for the tiniest projects) as on one USB stick and one microSD card I carry with me all the time I'm not at comp (got a simple script to do those back ups on demand, which I run every time I step away from computer). I use 128 GB ones and when those fill up, I simply mail them to my sister.
So basically, I have:
- Two local copies,
- Two copies at my parents
- Two copies on my person
- One copy on GitHub
- And old on person copies at my sister's
Paranoid? You bet! I've lost files due to disk failures, connection drops (back in modem days) and even due to bad firmware on a new USB stick.
What happens if somebody breaks into your room and thrashes your equipment? or a fire?
Mine would be Synology but as long as I've had a computer, all I do is move stuff to an external hard drive. Maybe one day I will have enough money to afford fancy things. I just hope that in the meantime, nothing happens, even though I know some day it will, and that's going to be a very bad day.
PLEASE HELP :: I am sick and tired of windows 10. there is a program called svchost.exe , it always start some process like service host : network and background intelligent transfer service etc and consumed all my internet data... please help me..
Chris, sad to say that "The cloud" vs backup tapes .....yes backup tapes. It's cheaper than the cloud. For a company like the one I work for. We store around 300GB per night. x 5 days a week. x 250 working day a year. And under federal law ...we have to store 7 years of information. 400 -500 dollars per month....No biggie. retrieval of information needed 1 to 12 hours. sending information back and forth between us and say AWS.....over high speed connections .....8 to 10 hours, to a data center 1300 to 1600 miles away...OUCH !!! New Horizons sent information from Pluto faster.... Even with a local center, it's freaky slow, and more money. In some cases.
Also, Dropbox admins were arrested for looking at private company information about *****muffled**** years back. The Customer information we have...would be a huge goldmine to someone.
At home, A Dell R-610 with 6TB of space. But I am thinking about a Synology RS 820+ Rack mount.with 16TB of drive space.
So true, tapes are very cheap and still widely used.
I remember going to a security conference and the keynote told a story. Rouge IT admin, deleted all their AWS and local servers... But by chance, there were some old tapes that had a majority of the company and saved them from ruin.
In the same conference they said the following which still holds true today... "The worst virus for any company is dropbox."
@@ChrisTitusTech I always thought tapes had a relatively short lifespan?
@@zaubermaus8190 Typically you do a rotation, but in today's world a lot of it is just used once for the backup and tossed in a secure location.
That said, I did have a client over a decade ago use the same tape every night and ended up wearing out the magnetic headers (essentially wiping out the tape) and ruining it within a year or two.
My pc isn't backed up. But my NAS I use for Plex is on Synology SHR and I'm in the process of backing that up to mega
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I SAVED MY PC WITH CLONEZILLA, CLONEZILLLA FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you review garuda linux please , just use this for one day and you gonna love this
You prefer garuda over manjaro?
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@Chris Titus Tech seems legit
i like SyncBack software
6:57 genshin impact W
I live in fear if someone hacks me I assume they can destroy my backups too.
7:38 "Up for 68 days"......................... He should've made this video one day later
Sigh... missed opportunity!
"What happens if you blow up your computer. Now that's a bad problem."
I expected more of this video to be dedicated to rclone.
I've had 2 external hard drives break on me after 2-3 months and frustrate the hell out of me.
One more thing you got Receipts spelled wrong "Reciepts" in that root backup folder. ;)
Does it really matter? Chris knows that. Probably set up an example for a video and mistyped it.
Is this all you took away from Chris' video....that he misspelled a word??
is it just me or his voice has extra bass today ?
I'm Using Mega at this Moment
This is great until your house burns down onsite backup are intrinsically flawed
I have a fireproof safe
Ha, it is why disaster backups exist. Having things just in the cloud or just local is flawed design. That is why I showed how I do my DR as well. In the video, I mention what happens if my house burns down.
SME's don't buy Synology boxes. They are toys.
Internxt 💪
Macrium free, and a old shitty 500gb USB HDd drive, is all your need. My pc is pretty nice, but do not overlook this back up setup , saved me couple times
Zerotier on Linux video when?
Probably looking at late April.
Try mega Chris
I manually replicate my data to two other PCs.
I back up all my school stuff and documents onto my own physical Nextcloud server. That server is also running timeshift on btrfs for snapshots, and I'm thinking of backing up the files on its main drive to other drives on that box. The way I tested this was when my laptop died and I didn't have any computer on me that worked with nvme SSDs. All my other computers are also running timeshift btrfs snapshots and have my entire nextcloud synced to them, so if the server goes down I'll have nextcloud backups on all my PCs.
POOG am i seeing genshin impact there ♥