Backup Archives • Helge Klein

resticprofile Backup Monitoring Grafana Dashboard

This article explains how to set up a Grafana dashboard to monitor restic/resticprofile backup operations.

restic: Encrypted Offsite Backup With Ransomware Protection for Your Homeserver

This article explains how to set up restic (with the resticprofile wrapper) for automated scheduled backups of your home server.

Top 10 IT Security Tips for Individual Users

This is a list of simple things that will protect you from nearly all the real-world IT security issues affecting individuals and SOHO users.

Linux Config File Version Control & Backup on GitHub

Linux famously stores all of its settings in files, making it easy to inspect, query, or backup the configuration with a plethora of tools, including Git. However, given that Git was conceived by the Linux community, there is surprisingly little integration. As a developer, I am used to managing everything with Git. Depending on my […]

Hyper-V Backup – Products & Options

It’s 2018, and backing up Hyper-V hosts is solved, right? I certainly expected it to be when I took on the task of finding a simple and reliable way to back up three hosts colocated in a large datacenter. This article summarizes my journey and the findings resulting from it.

Block-Based Encrypted Cloud Backup with Duplicati 2.0

I am an infrastructure guy (by heart – and a developer by nature). As such, topics like maintaining my own webserver (which I don’t – yet) or configuring backup deeply fascinate me. I am also mildly paranoid with regards to the safety and, especially as of late, the privacy of my data. That makes finding […]

How I Do Off-Site Cloud Backup

In my ongoing quest for the perfect way to back up my personal data I have tweaked the setup yet again. Most of what I wrote nearly three years ago (How to Build a State of the Art Backup System for Your Personal Data) still stands, so I will focus on off-site cloud backup in […]

New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Office 2010, RDS/XenApp, Windows, Web

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Should Roaming User Profiles Be Backed Up?

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. This may seem like a silly question, but whether or not to include roaming user profiles in your enterprise backup solution may greatly affect both the performance and the cost of that […]

How to Build a State of the Art Backup System for Your Personal Data

Like most people, I have been accumulating personal data over the decades. While some of it is not too important, other pieces are priceless, especially my pictures and videos. Losing those files would be a nightmare. That kept me searching for the ideal backup mechanism for several years. Although I would not dare say I […]

Mozy – Computer Upgrade / Data Migration – Lessons Learned

My familiy and me generate data all the time, mostly pictures and videos. I store it all on a PC in my small home network. That PC acts as a file server and, as all servers, needs to be backed up. The mere thought of losing all that information gives me the creeps. After initially […]

Tag: Backup

resticprofile Backup Monitoring Grafana Dashboard

restic: Encrypted Offsite Backup With Ransomware Protection for Your Homeserver

Top 10 IT Security Tips for Individual Users

Linux Config File Version Control & Backup on GitHub

Hyper-V Backup – Products & Options

Block-Based Encrypted Cloud Backup with Duplicati 2.0

How I Do Off-Site Cloud Backup

New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Office 2010, RDS/XenApp, Windows, Web

Should Roaming User Profiles Be Backed Up?

How to Build a State of the Art Backup System for Your Personal Data

Mozy – Computer Upgrade / Data Migration – Lessons Learned