[nathants]

Do something simpler. Backups shouldn’t be complex.

This should be simpler still:

https://github.com/nathants/backup

[ajb]

Cool, but looks like it's going to miss capabilities, so not suitable for a full OS backup (see https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/113293)

[nathants]

Interesting. I'm not trying to restore bootable systems, just data. Still, probably worthwhile to rebuild in Go soon.

[Too]

Index of files stored in git pointing to a remote storage. That sounds exactly like git LFS. Is there any significant difference? In particular in terms of backups.

[nathants]

Definitely similar.

Git LFS is 50k loc, this is 891 loc. There are other differences, but that is the main one.

I don't want a sophisticated backup system. I want one so simple that it disappears into the background.

I want to never fear data loss or my ability to restore with broken tools and a new computer while floating on a raft down a river during a thunder storm. This is what we train for.

[orsorna]

Is this a joke?

I don't see what value this provides that rsync, tar and `aws s3 cp` (or AWS SDK equivalent) provides.

[nathants]

How do you version your rsync backups?

[yread]

Uh, who has the money to store backups in AWS?!

[seized]

Glacier Deep Archive is the cheapest cloud backup option at $1USD/month/TB.

Google Cloud Store Archive Tier is a tiny bit more.

[nathants]

Depends how big they are. My high value backups go into S3, R2, and a local x3 disk mirror[1].

My low value backups go into a cheap usb hdd from Best Buy.

1. https://github.com/nathants/mirror

[PunchyHamster]

Support for S3 means you can just have minio server somewhere acting as backup storage (and minio is pretty easy to replicate). I have local S3 on my NAS replicated to cheapo OVH serwer for backup