# How do you do local backups regularly?

**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/how-do-you-do-local-backups-regularly/32588
**Category:** Discuss
**Tags:** backup, english
**Created:** [December 18, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/how-do-you-do-local-backups-regularly/32588 "2024-12-18T16:17:54Z")
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### Author: ![eivind](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@eivind](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/eivind)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/how-do-you-do-local-backups-regularly/32588/1 "2024-12-18T16:17:54Z")

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Good people one and all,

May I first thank all developers and contributors to Yunohost, and all you forum members. You are great. Merry Christmas/Kwanzaa/etc. and joyeux noël to you all.

This is not a complaint or call for help. I’d simply like to hear how you do local backups. My scenario is as follows: I have an old PC running Yunohost (baremetal), and a USB harddisk that I want to backup to. Previously, I used Borg to do this automatically. However, as I had a server crash not long ago, I discovered that Borg backups don’t neccessarily restore without problems. I can get data out of a Borg backup, but [not so easily configuration](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/borg-restore-backup-file-without-info-json/31979) (no worries, I was able to restore with a bit of trouble and toil).

So, to avoid similar restoration trouble again, I don’t think I’ll use Borg again. But then what? I would like to

1. automatically back up locally daily, and sometimes to a remote server
2. back up data and config/databases, with the aim to restore a server quickly and easily in case of hard drive failure
3. have unencrypted backups
4. have some kind of deduplication backup, so I don’t spend vastly more space than the data I have

What would you do in such a case? I am of course in the process of investigating Restic and Archivist and even rsync, but I haven’t decided. It hangs on item 2 in the list. Thanks for any input!

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### Author: ![arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/user_avatar/forum.yunohost.org/arkadi/32/5350_2.png) [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2024, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/how-do-you-do-local-backups-regularly/32588/2 "2024-12-19T05:27:02Z")

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> [@eivind](#):
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> t to backup to. Previously, I used Borg to do this automatically. However, as I had a server crash not long ago, I discovered that Borg backups don’t neccessarily restore w

i would look into Restic. i use restic and ZFS snapshots.