Borg backup in docker container on a Synology?

mikho

Title says it all, in a compressed form

What I’m looking for are comments/feesback on an idea that sprung to mind today as I talked with a relative.

He is paying waay to much for an off-site file backup.
Mainly because it is delivered as a service and he never has to do anything with it.

Basicly my idea is to put a Synology on-site, run a Borg Backup docker container on it and backup everything put on the Synology to an off-site, storage.

Has anyone tried something like this?

To put the money into perspective, he pays for 250GB off-site storage(actual two locations as its replicated data), one client (java).

Total price 3250 SEK ~ €290/month.
In my calculations, rent that storage somewhere and the Synology will be pid for within 6 months.
And he will get waay more storage to backup to.

havoc

A O365 personal/family sub and duplicati on his (presumably) windows computer will do basically the same thing for 60-75 USD a year.

Lacks the cool factor though.

mikho

@havoc said:
A O365 personal/family sub and duplicati on his (presumably) windows computer will do basically the same thing for 60-75 USD a year.

Lacks the cool factor though.

The advantage if the Synology is that I can backup his virtual machines (yes, this is work related) onto the Synology with Veeam and then backup off-site.
Meaning I can kill two birds with one stone.

vimalware

pip install borgmatic in a virtualenv owned by root.

I don't know if the docker is worth it. I like to manually manage borg versions on both ends after carefully reviewing changelogs for dataloss-impacting changes

mikho

@vimalware said:
pip install borgmatic in a virtualenv owned by root.

I don't know if the docker is worth it. I like to manually manage borg versions on both ends after carefully reviewing changelogs for dataloss-impacting changes

I’m running my Unifi controller and pi-hole as docker containers on my own Synology.
Thats part of what triggered the idea.

beagle

I'm not familiar with Synology, but based on my experience with QNAP it should have a offisite/cloud backup solution baked in and the interface is usually very user friendly.

mikho

@beagle said:
I'm not familiar with Synology, but based on my experience with QNAP it should have a offisite/cloud backup solution baked in and the interface is usually very user friendly.

It has a couple of alternatives.
Some better then others, which shows in the price for the service.

havoc

@mikho said: The advantage if the Synology is that I can backup his virtual machines (yes, this is work related) onto the Synology with Veeam and then backup off-site.
Meaning I can kill two birds with one stone.

ah right. Yeah that makes sense. I'd still consider O365 for the offsite part though. 6TB of storage w/ MS reliability for 75 bucks is hella cheap

Bochi

I did a similar thing for some time, but the clients that sent the data were servers from outside the network.
But at some point I switched to a storage VPS and BorgBase, way less moving parts...

By the way, the SynoCommunity repository offers borg: https://synocommunity.com/package/borgbackup
Maybe you can reduce the complexity by using this and then just use CloudSync (or HyperBackup) on the Synology to push the data elsewhere.

mikho

I might have been unclear when writing down my thoughts.

Borg wouldnonly be used to puch the data on the Synology (that is on-site) to a storage off-site.

There will be no backups from clients or anything.

I’ve considered the built in features in Synology but this way I could keep the off-site data for myself.

@havoc I have a similar setup with another client.
They use one O365 account to sync the data on the Synology with Onedrive, it works ok but is a hassle right now when individual files needs to be restored.