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My work flow is pretty similar to yours:
For my desktop and laptops: systemd timer and service that backups every 15 minutes using restic to my NAS.
For my NAS : daily backup using restic + ZFS snapshots.
All restic backups are then uploaded daily to Backblaze B2.
Nice try, mister ransonware attacker hacker!
Timeshift for snapshots and deja backups for files
All my configs are in gitlab or a self hosted forgejo server and all files are in seafile or a self hosted service running on proxmox. Then I use proxmox backup server on a storage VPS for off-site backup
I recently bought a storagebox from Hatzner and set up my server to run borgmatic every day to backup to it.
I've also discovered that Pika Backup works really well as a "read only" graphical browser for borg repos.
Using timeshift. Very, very easy, works great.
I currently use rclone with encryption to iDrive e2. I’m considering switching to Backrest, though.
I originally tried Backblaze b2, but exceeded their API quotas in their free tier and iDrive has “free” API calls, so I recently bought a year’s worth. I still have a 2 year Proton subscription and tried rclone with Proton drive, but it was too slow.
daily important stuff (job stuff, Documents folder, Renoise mods) is kept synced between laptop, desktop and home server via Syncthing. A vimwiki additionally also syncs with the phone. Sync happens only when on home network.
the rest of the laptop and desktop I'll roll into a tar backup every now and then with a quick bash alias. The tar files also get synced onto home server's big file system (2 TB ssd) via Syncthing. Home server backs itself up on it's own once a week.
clever thing is that the 2 TB ssd replaced an old 2 TB spinning disk. I kept the old disk and set up a systemd thing that keeps it spun down, but starts and mounts it once a week and rsyncs the changes to the ssd over, then unmounts it so that it sleeps again for a week. That old drive is likely to serve for years still with this frugal use.
Right now, nothing 😈 (but my dotfiles/etc configs live on several machines)
Before, I used Restic (incremental, encrypted backup over network), which I really liked. I think I should set it up again.
There’s nothing saved on my system I couldn’t afford to lose. All my work stuff is saved in Google Drive for better or worse. I have a few small files in a personal Proton Drive that I backup manually. I wipe my own system a few times a year and I rarely ever save anything first. Honestly very refreshing to live your life like that. Other than my cat, pretty much all my possessions could disappear tomorrow and I’d get over it pretty quickly.