Are backups for Block Storage Volumes planned?
Hi, just wondering if you have plans to add backups support to the Block Storage Volumes, it would be an incredible feature.
Right now every time we want to increase our storage we are obliged to upgrade Linode plan, which give us more CPU, RAM, etc. too. It would be awesome to have the option to only increase storage, I know the Block Storage Volumes are the way to go, but unfortunately the backups support is essential for us.
Thanks.
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I believe block storage volumes are automatically replicated 3 times.
I have my own backups for block storage volumes using borg backup. You can also backup block storage volumes to object storage using borg.
You can also use restic.
I tried restic but I liked borg better. Others here feel differently. As far as I can tell, the feature sets are very similar.
You can also use block storage volumes to build RAID sets (which I've also experimented with…although not using Linux as the host OS).
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Hey thanks for the quick response.
We were expecting for automated backups on Linode, but we will definitely take a look at those options you mention.
Thank so much!
Hey thanks for the quick response.
We were expecting for automated backups offered by Linode, but we will take a look at the options you have mentioned.
Thank you so much!
I've also used restic to setup automatic backups to object storage. This guide helped me: https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/backup-mariadb-mysql-to-object-storage-with-restic/