https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/categories/backups.htmlHugoen-ie2026 Tiernan OTooleFri, 10 Jul 2026 23:30:52 +0100https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/07/zfs-over-multiple-dvd-bd-r-images.htmlTue, 07 Mar 2023 09:42:46 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/07/zfs-over-multiple-dvd-bd-r-images.htmlA couple of days back, I started thinking about archiving and backup software. I kind of have backups “sorted”, with my MacBook Pro using BackBlaze to backup to the cloud, Time Machine backing it up to my Synology, my VMs on Proxmox being backed up to Proxmox Backup Server off-site, my Synology and QNAPs being backup to B2 and Hetzner and some other bits and bobs… But for the Archiving stuff, I am not really set up… So, I went looking for archiving software. Couldn’t find anything, so asked on r/DataHoarder. Still no options, at the time of posting, but someone did reply with the idea of using DVDs (or Blu Rays) for ZFS...https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2020/11/04/backups-backups-backups.htmlWed, 04 Nov 2020 10:38:58 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2020/11/04/backups-backups-backups.htmlI have posted about backups a few times on this site in recent years, and its still something I make tweaks to every now and again. The latest setup is probably over the top, but I will give you a walk though on it and some of it could be useful to some of you. I have a couple of different machines and storage devices running that need backups. Some need daily backups, some could get away with weekly. The list is as follows:https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2017/09/25/new-backup-plans.htmlMon, 25 Sep 2017 07:00:00 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2017/09/25/new-backup-plans.htmlSo, a few weeks back, CrashPlan, one of my chosen backup services, decided to kill their consumer backup plans. Which made me have to rethink my backup plan for the house… Note: This is how I am backing up files, and may or may not work for you. Some of this is already in “production” as of today, but others are planned… Any questions, comments, etc, leave them in the comments. So, first, as mentioned above, CrashPlan’s consumer backup options are now dead. They are giving you the option of either upgrading to their Small Business Plan for free till the end of your current contract + 2 months, or moving to Carbonite. For me, i just moved to their Small Business option, since its free, and meant that most of my backups just migrated over… i did not, how ever, look too much into Carbonite.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2015/04/01/hubic-and-duplicity.htmlWed, 01 Apr 2015 06:00:00 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2015/04/01/hubic-and-duplicity.htmlI mentioned HubiC in my last post, and in it i said that you could use Duplicity for backups. Well, this is how you get it to work… First, i am using Ubuntu 14.04 (i think…). I use Ubuntu in house for a few things: its running Tiernan’s Comms Closet, GeekPhotographer and Tiernan’s Podcast all in house, aswell as being used to build this site. The Web Server and MySQL Server are seperated, MySQL running on Windows, web on Ubuntu… but thats a different story… I have a couple of proxy servers running Ubuntu also Other general servers running Ubuntu… dont ask, cause i cant remember what they do half the time… So, Duplicity is a backup application. From their website:https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2012/11/30/symform-p2p-backup.htmlFri, 30 Nov 2012 09:13:27 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2012/11/30/symform-p2p-backup.htmlI have previously posted about CrashPlan as my Backup System. I also, a long time ago, talked about Backing up SQL, MySQL and other stuff on my other blog. Well, CrashPlan is all good, but there are 2 “niggly” bits with it… Its not FREE (well, this year i got it Free on Black Friday…) but it is cheap ($120 a year to backup 10 machines to the cloud aint bad.) Its NOT FAST! The CrashPlan Datacenters all live in the US, and my servers live in Europe (either Dublin or Germany). So, bandwidth is limited… Getting less than 1Mbit/s most times, but have seen it reach 3… I have 20Mbits/s upload… even half that would be nice… So, thats where Symform comes in. Symform is a P2P Backup Service, which runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX. In theory, it should run anywhere that has a Mono runtime since its written in .NET. Anyway, you start with 10Gb of free storage, and you can increese that by one of 2 ways:https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2012/09/27/crashplan-backups.htmlThu, 27 Sep 2012 11:32:32 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2012/09/27/crashplan-backups.htmlI have been running CrashPlan for a while now, and, other than some minor issues (backup speed to their central location is the big one), everything has been going grand. I use it to backup about 600GB of photos and videos, 500GB+ of VMs, documents, source code and a fair whack of other stuff… In total, about 2TB of data. Anyway, here are some tips i have figured out over the last while for making Crashplan work a little better…