I sync all my files across 4 different computers in my house (rsync and Nextcloud) and then backups on OneDrive and Google Drive.

I wrote my own thing. I didn’t understand how the standard options worked so I gave up.

https://github.com/danhab99/backup-brute

For a long time I did 1 hot copy (e.g. on my laptop), 1 LAN/homelab copy (e.g. Syncthing on a VM), and 1 cloud copy … less a backup scheme than a redundancy scheme, albeit with file versioning turned on on the homelab copy so I could be protected from oopsies.

I’m finally teaching myself duplicity in order to set up a backup system for a webdev business I’m working on … it ain’t bad.

rclone to dropbox and opendrive for things I care about like photo backups and RAW backups, and an encrypted rclone volume to both for things that need to be backed up, but also kept secure, such as scans of my tax returns, mortgage paperwork, etc. I maintain this script for the actual rclone automation via cron

Manually plug in a few disks every once in a while and copy the important stuff. Disks are offline for the most part.

I do an automated nightly backup via restic to Backblaze B2. Every month, I manually run a script to copy the latest backup from B2 to two local HDDs that I keep offline. Every half a year I recover the latest backup on my PC to make sure everything works in case I need it. For peace of mind, my automated backup includes a health check through healthchecks.io, so if anything goes wrong, I get a notification.

It’s pretty low-maintenance and gives a high degree of resilience:

• A ransomware attack won’t affect my local HDDs, so at most I’ll lose a month’s worth of data.
• A house fire or server failure won’t affect B2, so at most I’ll lose a day’s worth of data.

restic has been very solid, includes encryption out of the box, and I like the simplicity of it. Easily automated with cron etc. Backblaze B2 is one of the cheapest cloud storage providers I could find, an alternative might be Wasabi if you have >1TB of data.

Various HDD full data backups maintained with FreeFileSync, important files backup on ProtonDrive. Multi-device autosync with Syncthing (phones, tablet, pcs)

I have a compressed copy of the config files on my server on a separate drive, and every night restic makes a snapshot and stores it in a separate drive attached to a raspberry pi 3.

I’ve finally settled on Duplicacy. I’ve tried several CLI tools, messed with and love rclone, tried the other GUI backup tools, circled back to Duplicacy.

I run a weekly app data backup of my unRAID docker containers, which is stored on an external SSD attacked via USB to the server. The day after that runs duplicacy does a backup of that folder to Backblaze B2. My Immich library is backed up nightly and also sent to B2 via Duplicacy. Currently, those are the only bits of critical data on the server. I will add more as I finalize a client backup for the Win10, Linux, and MacOS devices at home, but it will follow this trend.

zfs send

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Proxmox backs up to pbs and pbs is synced to B2 with rclone.

Other stuff is restic to b2.

I use borg

I have my data backed up locally on an HDD, though I’m planning on building a server machine to hold more data with parity (not just for backups). Important data I have backed up in Google drive and Proton drive, both encrypted before upload. It isn’t that big, I don’t back up media or anything in the cloud. Oh and I have some stuff in mega, but I stopped adding to that years ago. I should probably delete that account, thanks for the reminder!

Right now just a spare hard drive on a pi that I rsync too, but I’m looking for better options as well.