Simple hassle free backup solution that costs less than a $1 a month.

With Borg and Rclone.

Features

Data encryption
Data deduplication
Incremental backup
Prunning older versions
External drive backup
Cloud backup
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Getting started

Install dependencies

You will need

Borg
Rclone
This repo git clone github.com/MichaelLeachim/borg_backblaze_backup

Configure

Copy configuration:

mv _config_sample.sh _config.sh

Initialize BORG archive

sudo borg init --encryption=repokey /home/mik/vm/borg.archive/

Put these in the config:

# borg folder name
export BORG_FOLDER_NAME='2018_desktop_borg';
# directory where to put Borg backup repo.
export BORG_DESKTOP="/home/mik/vm/$BORG_FOLDER_NAME";

Initialize and configure Wasabi or BackBlaze

Follow this or this guide

Set in the config:

export BACKBLAZE_PATH="backblaze:mik-desktop-borg-bucket-for-backup"
export WASABI_PATH="wasabi:dekstop_borg"

Backing up to external HDD drive

Configuration

Add label to the external drive sudo e2label /dev/sdc1 backup_drive

Ensure that your REMOTE_DIR exists and is empty.

Put in the config

# place where external HDD should be mounted (for script: to_external_hdd.sh)
export REMOTE_DIR="/home/mik/otherfs";

# label of the backup drive 
export BACKUP_DRIVE_LABEL="backup_drive";
# name of the directory on the remote media 
export REMOTE_PATH="$REMOTE_DIR/$BORG_FOLDER_NAME";

Usage

Plug in external drive and execute ./to_external_hdd.sh

Backing up to internal folder

Execute ./to_internal_folder.sh to put data into a folder specified in BORG_DESKTOP variable in the config.

This step is important to backup later to the cloud.

Variables that must be set for this step are:

# pass phrase for borg backup
export BORG_PASSPHRASE='Your Pass Phrase Here';
# borg folder name
export BORG_FOLDER_NAME='2018_desktop_borg';
# directory where to put Borg backup repo.
#  (Keep in mind, it might require a lot of space, as a rule of thumb, 1/3 of entire backup amount should be enough)
export BORG_DESKTOP="/home/mik/vm/$BORG_FOLDER_NAME";
export BORG_EXCLUDEFILE="_ignore";

Backing up to the cloud

You must install endpoits with rclone config prior to this step. Check https://rclone.org/ for documentation

Execute either of to_cloud_backblaze.sh or to_cloud_wasabi.sh You will need additionally to set:

export BACKBLAZE_PATH="backblaze:mik-desktop-borg-bucket-for-backup"
export WASABI_PATH="wasabi:dekstop_borg"

And you will need already functioning backup to the internal folder that RClone will sync to the preferable cloud

In practice, both of these commands should be executed consequently. I.e:

to_internal_folder.sh && to_cloud_backblaze.sh

Setting up Ignore folders for backup

Set up which folders to ignore in backup _ignore

For example:

/proc/*
/boot/*
/cdrom/*
/dev/*
/media/*
/mnt/*
/run/*
/selinux/*
/tmp/*
/var/log/*
/sys/*
/var/*
/var/tmp/*
/var/lib/docker/*
/var/cache/*
/lib/*

Caveats

In case you are planning to backup the entire drive, you will need to do everything by the root user, including setting up RClone endpoints, and Borg repository

License

The MIT license

pmapcat/borg_backblaze_backup