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How do you guys back up your server?

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I have a home server that I’m using and hosting files on it. I’m worried about it breaking and loosing access to the files. So what method do you use to backup everything?

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You can access ZFS snapshots from the hidden .zfs folder at the root dir of your volume. From there you can restore individual files.

There is also a command line tool (httm) that lists all snapshotted versions of a files and allows you to restore them.

If the snapshot you want to restore from is on a remote machine, you can either send it over or scp/rsync the files from the .zfs directory.

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