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

All running VMsNAS (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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