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Backup Matrix⚓

Summary⚓

The following will be a matrix showing what machines back up to where, as well as what software is responsible for the backups.

Backup Matrix⚓

Hardware OS Backup Software Snapshot Software Snapshots Local Backup Cloud Backup NAS NAS to B2 Backup Interval
System76 Manjaro Vorta Backup Timeshift Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Daily:

Timeshift: 12pm

Vorta: 2am

Macbook Pro 13" (Dave) MacOS Backblaze Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) Yes No Yes Yes No

Backblaze: Continuous /

CCC: First Sunday Monthly at 12am

Macbook Pro 13" (Maria) MacOS Backblaze Time Machine Yes No Yes Yes No

Backblaze: Continuous /

Time Machine: Monthly

HP Z620 XCP-NG Xen Orchestra Xen Orchestra Yes No No Yes Yes Full: 1st of month at 12am
Delta: Every 7 days at 4am
HP Z620 (Plex) Ubuntu Cloudberry Backup Xen Orchestra Yes No No Yes Yes Monthly: First day of month at 2am
Intel Nuc Windows 7 Backblaze N/A No No Yes No No Continuous

Backup Flow

OS drive snapshot → Local Internal Storage (~/Storage) → NAS (see Vorta Backup)

Local Internal Storage (~/Storage) → NAS (mounted at /mnt/backups) → NAS to B2

  • Continuous backup of:
    • OS drive
    • Sandisk flash drive
    • 3TB external drive

OS drive only ---> NAS (mounted at smb://192.168.1.6/Carbon Copy Cloner_Daves MBP)

  • Continuous backup of:
  • OS drive
  • Flash drive

OS drive only ---> NAS (mounted at smb://192.168.1.6/Time Machine Folder_Maria)

All running VMs → NAS (mounted at \192.168.1.6 : /volume1/Xen-Backups/Delta-Backups) → NAS to B2

All running VMs → NAS (mounted at \192.168.1.6 : /volume1/Xen-Backups/Full-Backups) → NAS to B2

Videos (/home/dave/Videos) → NAS (mounted at /mnt/Plex/Videos) → NAS to AWS S3 Deep Glacier Archive.

  • Continuous backup of:
    • OS drive
    • External drive# 1 & External drive #2

Backup Diagram⚓

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