Tutorial: remote backup of local Cloudron backup snapshots with restic / rclone

[timconsidine]

@necrevistonnezr nice article.
Great fan of rclone.
I use it with wasabi and scaleway.

Don't know restic so I'm off to learn.

Becoming fan of https://ntfy.sh : great for adding into scripts run by cron to confirm running/script results/server status (e.g. df -h)

[robi]

@timconsidine said in Tutorial: remote backup of local Cloudron backup snapshots with restic / rclone:

Becoming fan of https://ntfy.sh :

Nice find, that's totally self-hostable, you should add it to the list!

We had several instances where we needed a way to have notifications for cloudron apps/events. This would do the trick!

It can also be made a feature request for box notifications to support an API or curl call for admins.

[timconsidine]

@robi I've been meaning to have a go at packaging it.
But I stumbled on something (I forget what).
Will try again.
And will open a wishlist for someone more talented than me to have a crack.

[necrevistonnezr]

added command to list all available snapshots to original post

[necrevistonnezr]

Note that (very effective) compression using zstd has been added to restic beta recently (beta versions are quite stable) - my repository went from 221 GB down to 180 GB with default settings. I have updated the tutorial to reflect this and also a section for migration of existing repos.

[marcusquinn]

Very handy, bookmarking this post for future learning.

Also handy for Rsync with OSX: https://github.com/rsyncOSX/RsyncOSX

[murgero]

@necrevistonnezr Very in-depth. I don't use Cloudron anymore, but this is gonna be really good for admins looking for something easy to manage.

[necrevistonnezr]

@murgero said in Tutorial: remote backup of local Cloudron backup snapshots with restic / rclone:

@necrevistonnezr Very in-depth. I don't use Cloudron anymore, but this is gonna be really good for admins looking for something easy to manage.

Thanks! Can I ask why you’re not using Cloudron anymore…?

[murgero]

@necrevistonnezr No bad reasoning here, just needed a few more features and found something else to use. Cloudron is and always will have a special spot in my heart. Love the Cloudron team, and I'll still be around the forums too

[jdaviescoates]

@murgero said in Tutorial: remote backup of local Cloudron backup snapshots with restic / rclone:

just needed a few more features and found something else to use.

What are you using now?

[murgero]

@jdaviescoates Technically speaking I still use Cloudron, just not for my email. I should have made that clear.

Currently using MailCow.

[jdaviescoates]

@murgero said in Tutorial: remote backup of local Cloudron backup snapshots with restic / rclone:

Currently using MailCow.

Just out of interest, which features does MailCow have that Cloudron's email offering lacks? Thanks!

[murgero]

@jdaviescoates domain admins, quotas, oauth for 3rd party apps, and rspamd to name a few

[marcusquinn]

@murgero Worth logging each of them as feature requests here given your good experience with both?

[A Former User]

This is super helpful. I’m hoping we see something like this as a feature baked in though. Like multiple backup sources with different schedules