Looking for recommendations for backing up laptops to my Unraid NAS. I’m running Immich for photos, and want something for incremental backup of the laptops (Win 11 and Linux). What do you guys like?
Borg seems fine to me.
Take a look at Restic Not the easiest, but so far as proven to be reliable and performant
I set up Syncthing using the docker image from the Unraid “store” and it works great.
I’m not in love with the clients (especially Windows) but it seems to work pretty well once your setup is stable.
Thanks for the recc. I’ve used syncthing for syncing my phone with my PC and it works great. Though sync is not quite what I want since any file deletions on the PC get propagated to the folder on the server. Though maybe there is a way to change this behavior in syncthing?
In the advanced options of syncthing (web GUI) you can turn off deletions for every sync folder respectively.
I would generally keep sync and backup separate, but if you are using a cow filesystem like zfs on your unraid machine, it could take reliable snapshots.
duply
Veeam has a free client backup app that you can point to a share.
Duplicati is probably one of the easier options.
Agree, I use it myself. My only gripe is that it seems pretty slow, not sure if thats the deduplication part or what, haven’t bothered looking into it because i run the backup after im in bed so not a big deal.
If you are gonna run the backups during daytime might be a problem.
Then again though, could just be my setup (havent looking into it).
I use Resilio to duplicate locally to my Unraid, which I know is hated as it’s not the FOSS Syncthing, but in 5 years of use, it’s never gone wrong, and the client software is dead easy to use. That has a hidden .sync folder which archives deleted files for 30 days. You can change the timeframe or remove this feature in settings. I go into the sync folder and remove the deleted files manually if it becomes too bloated.
From my Unraid, I then backup to Hetzner using Duplicacy, which with the GUI is also very easy to use. From what I’ve read about the other backup solutions being a bit flaky, Duplicacy seems to have nothing but love.