Backups with Duplicati to GCP Nearline

Headache

If you’re like me, you probably also have a home server on which you host various containers. Way more than you probably should be doing.

And similar to me, you also already have had several times where one of your hard drives has crashed or you accidentally deleted a configuration file.

You might have tought to yourself; “I’m an engineer damn it. I should be able to handle such issues without a sweat”. But for whatever reason, the best solution you can come up with is to rsync you’re harddrives onto some other external drives.

This is all fine and dandy, but it unfortunately doesn’t scale. Like all other home server peeps out there, you will also end up storing more and more data and increasing the size of your backups to some ridiculous size.

If you’ve been nodding your head along up to this point, then you’ve come to the right place.

I too, had to deal with all of this and I too knew that there must be a better way of doing things.

Duplicati + GCP = ❤️

This is when I discovered Duplicati.

Duplicati allows you to make encypted backups to various backends. You can also host it on your home server (tho some would argue that your backup server should…