November 2, 20241 yr Hi everyone, I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to use Restic for backing up my appdata to the cloud. After hitting a roadblock, I’m considering a different approach: setting the appdata backup script’s target directory directly to a mounted online storage (specifically a Hetzner Storage Box, mounted as an SMB share). My main question is whether it’s generally advisable to point the appdata backup script to an online storage mount as its backup destination. Are there any potential risks, performance issues, or other drawbacks to this approach? Would love to hear if anyone else has tried this setup or if there are any known limitations to keep in mind. Thanks in advance for any insights!
November 2, 20241 yr Community Expert Solution When make a backup over a network, you have points of failure. Example when something goes down or unreachable, the backup fails to write and now you have a dead files. So I would have a dedicated folder for app data plugin to backup on unraid itself. Then, I would setup a user scirpt plugin to mount the external voumen and copy/rsync the backup. This way I can inspect and guarantee a good mount, and copy before and after. As the appdata plugin has a rotation, you can also set that to keep 3 backups max so unraid will have a backup on its and a script to copy it off unraid for recovery... You can even have the script run after appdata is done... Edited November 2, 20241 yr by bmartino1
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