u/therealiminusjk

Hello everyone,

I have been using and enjoying Nextcloud for half a year now, installed using the aio.

I am using other services as well, and I started looking into how to properly do the off-site backup.

For now, I am using the built-in borg backup for nextcloud, which forces me to use almost double the storage needed. I am currently backing up on the same drive, as I currently don't have the means to get a secondary drive.

I have a free offer to use 5tb of google drive for half a year, so for the time being I am going to use it as an off-site solution using restic.

Here is my dilemma:

Should I disable borg backup and only use restic to backup everything (of course it first shuts down docker and then backs up the files, databases, and even the docker containers/volumes)? This saves space and allows for easy specific file restore.

Or should I keep using borg backup and have restic back up both the backup made by borg and the raw files? This allows for easier full nextcloud restore, but wastes space.

I am interested in hearing what do you all use and what's normally done in such situations?

Thanks a lot