Hello,
I am looking for recommendations for a service provider of immutable backup that has options for a homelab user.
My research has led me to services with expensive options, or no pricing at all unless you ask for a quote.
Thank you
Restic or Borg on your side, a safe and remote destination on the other side.
use restic, with backrest web GUI, and cannot be happier.
As for remote site, I use a remote machine I rent, but there are plenty of providers around, shop a bit… Or find a friend for reciprocal backup?
My plan is to build a second server that I will leave at my inlaws’ house and use that, but for now, I will rent a cloud while this happens.
I use Backblaze B2, but stored in an encrypted Restic container, set up using this guide:
Restic has been great for automating backups, and even letting me mount the encrypted storage to grab individual files. I like doing it this way since I don’t have to trust Backblaze isn’t reading my data - I know for sure that they can’t.
Performance of storage that is both remote and encrypted is about what you would expect, but I don’t need access to the data unless something bad happens.
How much data are we talking about?
A free mega.nz account should be fine for everything except family fotos and legally obtained music/movies.
Backblaze B2 has the option: https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-object-lock
Cheap storage too.
I use backblaze storage with Kopia, which supports using object lock. Every time a backup is made the objects for it are locked for a configurable amount of time. I use 30 days, so an attacker would have to compromise my backup software for a month before being able to erase my backups.
I like the thought of having timed backups to keep the costs lower by pruning the olds backups.