https://www.rusinov.ie/enContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:vladimir.rusinov@gmail.com">Vladimir Rusinov</a> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:19:27 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/en/posts/2020/backups-part-2-files/Vladimir Rusinov<div><p>This post is a follow-up to <a href="/en/posts/2020/backups-part-1-strategy/">a post where I talk about backups strategy</a>.</p> <p>Here I describe my solution for file backups from my Linux computers, and don't yet go into the subject of other devices and online services.</p> <p>After some experimentation I decided to use <a href="https://restic.net/">restic</a> for this. Restic is a modern, open-source backup program with an active community. It is written in Go. It runs on Linux (but also BSD, Mac and Windows) and can back up to local disks as well as remote/cloud services.</p> <p>And as I wanted my backups to be cheap, "pay as you go" and off-site I've opted to use Backblaze for storage.</p> <h2 id="why-restic">Why restic?</h2> <p><a href="/en/posts/2020/backups-part-2-files/">Read more…</a> (8 min remaining to read)</p></div>backupslinuxreliabilityrestic/en/posts/2020/backups-part-2-files/Sun, 01 Nov 2020 15:33:30 GMT/en/posts/2020/backups-part-1-strategy/Vladimir Rusinov<div><p>There are two kinds of people in this world: people who back up their files and people who will back up their files.</p> <p>If you don't do backups, check the <a href="http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/">world backup day website</a>. It lists a number of reasons of why backups are important and provides some advice on how to start backing your files up.</p> <p>However, their advice is rather simplistic. After following it and setting up /some/ backup, one may end up with no usable backups still and false sense of security. Or, people who are more paranoid (or experienced?), may still have some anxiety. There are still many open questions. Do I backup the right files? Did I forget anything? Will these backups protect me from all data loss situations? Do they cost me too much?</p> <p><a href="/en/posts/2020/backups-part-1-strategy/">Read more…</a> (3 min remaining to read)</p></div>backupsreliability/en/posts/2020/backups-part-1-strategy/Sun, 01 Nov 2020 15:06:25 GMT