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Ok, we've got a plan in place to repurpose the old fileserver as a new archive server. Needs the purchase of two largish NAS hard drives, and a full refresh of the OS and some scripting etc, but after that, we're good to go.
I'm gonna put #guix on it so it's reproducible in case the old device dies (motherboard is 9 years old), and gonna use #borgmatic to do the internal and offsite backup drives. The deduplication should make all this stuff work and we should be able to keep years of history
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🇬🇧 Nightly encrypted backups at home with #BorgBackup #Borgmatic #BorgWarehouse over #WireGuard.
Server wakes up only at night (rtcwake, ACPI S3): 280 → 35 kWh/year.
Self-hosted, secure & energy-efficient.
👉 https://r4ven.fr/en/blog/encrypted-backup-selfhosted-borgbackup-nightly-eco-friendly/🇫🇷 Sauvegardes chiffrées nocturnes à domicile avec #BorgBackup #Borgmatic et #BorgWarehouse via #WireGuard.
Serveur allumé uniquement la nuit (rtcwake, ACPI S3) : 280 → 35 kWh/an.
Auto-hébergé, sécurisé et économe en énergie.
👉 https://r4ven.fr/blog/encrypted-backup-selfhosted-borgbackup-nightly-eco-friendly/ -
This is the second time I set up borg and borgmatic and I had to figure out things again the second time. So I now did what I should have done the first time: write it down.
https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2025-08/26-off-site_backup_with_borgmatic
#backup #borg #borgmatic #blogpost -
Le migliori soluzioni di Backup per Linux:
- #BorgBackup
- #BackinTime
- #DejaDup
- #Rsync
- #Clonezilla
- #VeeamAgent
- #Bacula
- #Kup
- #Syncthing
- #UrBackup
- #CobianBackup
- #rdiffBackup
- #Casync
- #Amanda
- #FlyBackup
- #BackupNinja
- #Kbackup
- #Mondorescue
- #Borgmatic
- #Restic
- #Rsnapshot
- #Duplicity
- #Unison
- #Rear
- #BackuoPC
- #Kopia
- #Timeshift
- #Bareosse usate altri software di Backup segnalateli nei commenti!
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Borg-ui and Vorta are nice BorgBackup frontends
I’ve been using Borgmatic, a Python frontend to BorgBackup, to handle backups of my photo archive.
For a few months I had trusted macOS Time Machine to do that job, but somehow, the APFS container or something got corrupted, and I had to format a 12TB external drive to fix it. Time Machine was interrupted while making a backup and corrupted an index irreparibly. We have occasional power cuts so I did not want that to happen again.
So, back to BorgBackup. I had used it before but I wasn’t happy with how I had it configured. I don’t remember what it was now, because the reasons are lost in the mists of time. I decided to look into Borgmatic to help run BorgBackup and it made configuring it fairly easy.
Borgmatic is a configuration-based tool, so you create a .yml file defining the directories to backup, where the backup repo lives, and then run it whenever you want to create a new backup. I have it running once a day because my photo library doesn’t change that often.
Browsing BorgBackup repositories was a weak point of the system, but there are two good options:
I tried Vorta before, but you need to mount the repository to browse it, and I didn’t want to go down the route of installing a macFUSE kernel mod. However, I see from their website some promising news:
Thanks to the new FSKit backend in macFUSE, supported file systems can now run entirely in user space on macOS 26. That means no more rebooting into recovery mode to enable support for the macFUSE kernel extension. Installation is faster and setup becomes a seamless experience.
If you’re only extracting backups, you can safely ignore the popup that demands you give Vorta full-disk access.
I noticed that the Vorta app behaves like a popup window on macOS. It’s not possible to CMD-TAB to it, and it has no menu system in the top admin bar. It’s not even in the Dock. You’ll have to run it from Spotlight/Alfred/Raycast and it will be shown.
From the Archives tab, it is possible to “Extract…” from a repository that doesn’t require mounting of the backup and that does work. If you have a large repository you may see the infamous spinning colour ball if you’re using a Mac as it gets all the file info. Give it time. It may take more than a minute to show you a file listing.
I’m also investigating a web-based borg-ui that runs in a Docker container. That allows me to restrict access only to the directories I want to back up or restore, or as I have configured it now, it only has access to the backup repositories and a restore directory. I don’t need to restore files very often so I can shut down the container and only launch it when I need to.
Browsing or extracting files using Borg-ui is just as slow as in Vorta, but it has a spinning animation in a modal popup to stop you from trying to restore twice.
If you’re not familiar with Docker, give Vorta a go, but borg-ui is definitely worth a look too. Don’t depend on either of them to do your backups. That should be automated so you don’t need to remember to do it.
You should of course have a remote backup, and for that I recommend Backblaze. I’ve been using them for years. Thankfully I’ve hardly ever had to restore more than a few files from them but I check it semi-regularly. Sign up through here and I’ll get a free month if you pay for it!
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#borgUi #BorgBackup #Borgmatic #Linux #macOS #tech #Vorta -
Le migliori soluzioni di Backup per Linux:
- #BorgBackup
- #BackinTime
- #DejaDup
- #Rsync
- #Clonezilla
- #VeeamAgent
- #Bacula
- #Kup
- #Syncthing
- #UrBackup
- #CobianBackup
- #rdiffBackup
- #Casync
- #Amanda
- #FlyBackup
- #BackupNinja
- #Kbackup
- #Mondorescue
- #Borgmatic
- #Restic
- #Rsnapshot
- #Duplicity
- #Unison
- #Rear
- #BackuoPC
- #Kopia
- #Timeshift
- #Bareosse usate altri software di Backup segnalateli nei commenti!
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Le migliori soluzioni di Backup per Linux:
- #BorgBackup
- #BackinTime
- #DejaDup
- #Rsync
- #Clonezilla
- #VeeamAgent
- #Bacula
- #Kup
- #Syncthing
- #UrBackup
- #CobianBackup
- #rdiffBackup
- #Casync
- #Amanda
- #FlyBackup
- #BackupNinja
- #Kbackup
- #Mondorescue
- #Borgmatic
- #Restic
- #Rsnapshot
- #Duplicity
- #Unison
- #Rear
- #BackuoPC
- #Kopia
- #Timeshift
- #Bareosse usate altri software di Backup segnalateli nei commenti!
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Le migliori soluzioni di Backup per Linux:
- #BorgBackup
- #BackinTime
- #DejaDup
- #Rsync
- #Clonezilla
- #VeeamAgent
- #Bacula
- #Kup
- #Syncthing
- #UrBackup
- #CobianBackup
- #rdiffBackup
- #Casync
- #Amanda
- #FlyBackup
- #BackupNinja
- #Kbackup
- #Mondorescue
- #Borgmatic
- #Restic
- #Rsnapshot
- #Duplicity
- #Unison
- #Rear
- #BackuoPC
- #Kopia
- #Timeshift
- #Bareosse usate altri software di Backup segnalateli nei commenti!
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Le migliori soluzioni di Backup per Linux:
- #BorgBackup
- #BackinTime
- #DejaDup
- #Rsync
- #Clonezilla
- #VeeamAgent
- #Bacula
- #Kup
- #Syncthing
- #UrBackup
- #CobianBackup
- #rdiffBackup
- #Casync
- #Amanda
- #FlyBackup
- #BackupNinja
- #Kbackup
- #Mondorescue
- #Borgmatic
- #Restic
- #Rsnapshot
- #Duplicity
- #Unison
- #Rear
- #BackuoPC
- #Kopia
- #Timeshift
- #Bareosse usate altri software di Backup segnalateli nei commenti!
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@luc For this server, I am using #duplicity (wrapped in #duply). Originally, it used #restic, but the pruning ended up using too much RAM (but restic has improved this, and I've upgraded from a 4GB system to 32GB since then, so maybe I'll switch back to restic or #borgbackup sometime soon, since I found out that duplicity does not back up ACLs...).
I'm also still using restic (with a custom script) for my laptop backups, and borg (with borgmatic) for some other servers/raspberry pis.
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Over the past few months, I've switched my #backups to @borgbackup. The blazing speed convinces me. @borgmatic has made my own scripts superfluous. The icing on the cake is the offsite backup to #BorgBase. I take my hat off to the developers of these #awesome tools and their comprehensive documentation.
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#PSA: if you're running your own instance (or really ANYTHING), please do your #backups right.
I'm a chaotic person traveling a lot esp. now, and a good #backup strategy has saved my dumb backend countless times.
3-2-1 rule rocks, and I can recommend #borgmatic #borgbackup. #restic also works good for #Windows machines, but there is also #Kopia that I'm testing now.
You can always get some cheap storage with any provider you like - #Backblaze #Borgbase #rsync.net etc.
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Never trust untested backups. With Borgmatic, use `borgmatic check --verbosity 2` for repository integrity and `borgmatic extract --dry-run` to simulate restores. Schedule monthly tests.
🔗 Learn more in my course: https://monospacementor.com/courses/linsys-1/
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Borg-ui and Vorta are nice BorgBackup frontends
I’ve been using Borgmatic, a Python frontend to BorgBackup, to handle backups of my photo archive.
For a few months I had trusted macOS Time Machine to do that job, but somehow, the APFS container or something got corrupted, and I had to format a 12TB external drive to fix it. Time Machine was interrupted while making a backup and corrupted an index irreparibly. We have occasional power cuts so I did not want that to happen again.
So, back to BorgBackup. I had used it before but I wasn’t happy with how I had it configured. I don’t remember what it was now, because the reasons are lost in the mists of time. I decided to look into Borgmatic to help run BorgBackup and it made configuring it fairly easy.
Borgmatic is a configuration-based tool, so you create a .yml file defining the directories to backup, where the backup repo lives, and then run it whenever you want to create a new backup. I have it running once a day because my photo library doesn’t change that often.
Browsing BorgBackup repositories was a weak point of the system, but there are two good options:
I tried Vorta before, but you need to mount the repository to browse it, and I didn’t want to go down the route of installing a macFUSE kernel mod. However, I see from their website some promising news:
Thanks to the new FSKit backend in macFUSE, supported file systems can now run entirely in user space on macOS 26. That means no more rebooting into recovery mode to enable support for the macFUSE kernel extension. Installation is faster and setup becomes a seamless experience.
If you’re only extracting backups, you can safely ignore the popup that demands you give Vorta full-disk access.
I noticed that the Vorta app behaves like a popup window on macOS. It’s not possible to CMD-TAB to it, and it has no menu system in the top admin bar. It’s not even in the Dock. You’ll have to run it from Spotlight/Alfred/Raycast and it will be shown.
From the Archives tab, it is possible to “Extract…” from a repository that doesn’t require mounting of the backup and that does work. If you have a large repository you may see the infamous spinning colour ball if you’re using a Mac as it gets all the file info. Give it time. It may take more than a minute to show you a file listing.
I’m also investigating a web-based borg-ui that runs in a Docker container. That allows me to restrict access only to the directories I want to back up or restore, or as I have configured it now, it only has access to the backup repositories and a restore directory. I don’t need to restore files very often so I can shut down the container and only launch it when I need to.
Browsing or extracting files using Borg-ui is just as slow as in Vorta, but it has a spinning animation in a modal popup to stop you from trying to restore twice.
If you’re not familiar with Docker, give Vorta a go, but borg-ui is definitely worth a look too. Don’t depend on either of them to do your backups. That should be automated so you don’t need to remember to do it.
You should of course have a remote backup, and for that I recommend Backblaze. I’ve been using them for years. Thankfully I’ve hardly ever had to restore more than a few files from them but I check it semi-regularly. Sign up through here and I’ll get a free month if you pay for it!
#borgUi #BorgBackup #Borgmatic #Linux #macOS #tech #Vorta -
🚀 #BorgWarehouse v2.4 is out with a lot of new features ! 🚀
- 💫 Manage your repositories through a secure REST API !
- 💫 Globally disable repository deletion.
- 💫 Better integration of #Pika Backup
- ...See the changelog :
https://github.com/Ravinou/borgwarehouse/releases/tag/v2.4.0All the documentation is up-to-date !
The holidays gave me a lot of time to work on this release, which I'm really proud of! Have fun and share it!
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BareOS is a pretty solid backup solution, but it is probably more useful in larger environments, especially if tape-based storage is used.
I've used it for file-based storage, and that ended up quite cumbersome - and it was too easy to get a valid retention setup - resulting in actually not being able to recover data. So be very careful setting it up and read the docs very carefully.
I switched to @borgmatic for servers which builds on @borgbackup. That will get you started quickly and is really solid. For desktop clients, I can recommend #PikaBackup, which also builds on BorgBackup.
Using the
command="BORG_SERVE_CMD_WITH_OPTIONS", from="IP_ADDRESS", restrictfeature in the~/.ssh/authorized_keystogether with the--restrict-to-repositoryoption inborg serve, you can have a single Unix account on the backup server using unique/independent SSH keys per server/user - and they will not get access across each other's pools. In addition, each backup repository uses their own encryption keys.Borgmatic will do the storage pool retention for you automatically and ensure you won't end up with a useless storage repository.
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In den vergangenen Wochen habe ich mal mein Backupkonzept neu gemacht. Sowohl lokal als auch für die VPS. Es läuft jetzt überall borg und borgmatic und synchronisiert den Kram in etliche Richtungen, u. a. lokal und auf ne #Hetzner Storagebox. #selfhosting #backup #feelsgood
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What's your preferred method of #backup a #Linux server (I'm running #debian) in order to recover from a disaster?
How about backing up user data?
I think #zpaq might be great for user data and the like, but anything that might need file permissions or the sort (?) something like #borgmatic might be a better idea?
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Been a while since I blogged, so it's time for the latest installment in "Edd massively over-complicates things with SSH certificates" This time, a post about how I got rid of the need to create a new sub account on my #Hetzner Storage Box every time I wanted to create a new VM and back it up with #Borg. Definitely easier ways to have achieved it, but it shows of the versatility of ssh certificates, and #StepCA that's powering them in my home lab.
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Been a while since I blogged, so it's time for the latest installment in "Edd massively over-complicates things with SSH certificates" This time, a post about how I got rid of the need to create a new sub account on my #Hetzner Storage Box every time I wanted to create a new VM and back it up with #Borg. Definitely easier ways to have achieved it, but it shows of the versatility of ssh certificates, and #StepCA that's powering them in my home lab.
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Been a while since I blogged, so it's time for the latest installment in "Edd massively over-complicates things with SSH certificates" This time, a post about how I got rid of the need to create a new sub account on my #Hetzner Storage Box every time I wanted to create a new VM and back it up with #Borg. Definitely easier ways to have achieved it, but it shows of the versatility of ssh certificates, and #StepCA that's powering them in my home lab.
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Been a while since I blogged, so it's time for the latest installment in "Edd massively over-complicates things with SSH certificates" This time, a post about how I got rid of the need to create a new sub account on my #Hetzner Storage Box every time I wanted to create a new VM and back it up with #Borg. Definitely easier ways to have achieved it, but it shows of the versatility of ssh certificates, and #StepCA that's powering them in my home lab.
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Been a while since I blogged, so it's time for the latest installment in "Edd massively over-complicates things with SSH certificates" This time, a post about how I got rid of the need to create a new sub account on my #Hetzner Storage Box every time I wanted to create a new VM and back it up with #Borg. Definitely easier ways to have achieved it, but it shows of the versatility of ssh certificates, and #StepCA that's powering them in my home lab.
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@luc For this server, I am using #duplicity (wrapped in #duply). Originally, it used #restic, but the pruning ended up using too much RAM (but restic has improved this, and I've upgraded from a 4GB system to 32GB since then, so maybe I'll switch back to restic or #borgbackup sometime soon, since I found out that duplicity does not back up ACLs...).
I'm also still using restic (with a custom script) for my laptop backups, and borg (with borgmatic) for some other servers/raspberry pis.
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@luc For this server, I am using #duplicity (wrapped in #duply). Originally, it used #restic, but the pruning ended up using too much RAM (but restic has improved this, and I've upgraded from a 4GB system to 32GB since then, so maybe I'll switch back to restic or #borgbackup sometime soon, since I found out that duplicity does not back up ACLs...).
I'm also still using restic (with a custom script) for my laptop backups, and borg (with borgmatic) for some other servers/raspberry pis.
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@luc For this server, I am using #duplicity (wrapped in #duply). Originally, it used #restic, but the pruning ended up using too much RAM (but restic has improved this, and I've upgraded from a 4GB system to 32GB since then, so maybe I'll switch back to restic or #borgbackup sometime soon, since I found out that duplicity does not back up ACLs...).
I'm also still using restic (with a custom script) for my laptop backups, and borg (with borgmatic) for some other servers/raspberry pis.
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One of those weekends were I start a simple #homelab task and then boop all over the place.
- Fedi Merch: Make store.json file people can use to build their own catalog sites.
- But first: Move my local Gitea to Forgejo
- And then: Setup Borgmatic to backup Forgejo
- What was I doing again? Oh yeah - store.json. Welp, out of time.
And then the weekend was gone.
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Baramati Skies Witness Another Crash Landing: Trainee Pilot Escapes Unharmed
A trainee pilot escaped unharmed after a crash landing near Baramati airstrip on May 13, 2026. The incident follows a fatal crash months earlier.
#BaramatiCrash, #FlightSafety, #PilotSafe, #AviationNews, #Maharashtra
https://newsletter.tf/baramati-trainee-pilot-crash-landing-may-13/
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A trainee pilot walked away unharmed from a crash landing on May 13, 2026. This is the second aircraft incident near Baramati airstrip this year.
#BaramatiCrash, #FlightSafety, #PilotSafe, #AviationNews, #Maharashtra
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NCP MLC Amol Mitkari raises ‘suicide bomber’ angle in Ajit Pawar’s Baramati plane crash, while MoS Murlidhar Mohol says the preliminary AAIB report will be released by February 28. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/ajit-pawar-plane-crash-mitkari-suicide-bomber-remark-aaib-report-vb3tss8y?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AjitPawar #BaramatiCrash #PlaneCrash #AmolMitkari #AAIB