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Looking for recommendations for backing up laptops to my Unraid NAS. I'm running Immich for photos, and want something for incremental backup of the laptops (Win 11 and Linux). What do you guys like?

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[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I set up Syncthing using the docker image from the Unraid “store” and it works great.

I’m not in love with the clients (especially Windows) but it seems to work pretty well once your setup is stable.

[–] mosspiglet@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Thanks for the recc. I've used syncthing for syncing my phone with my PC and it works great. Though sync is not quite what I want since any file deletions on the PC get propagated to the folder on the server. Though maybe there is a way to change this behavior in syncthing?

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I would generally keep sync and backup separate, but if you are using a cow filesystem like zfs on your unraid machine, it could take reliable snapshots.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

You can enable file versioning so deleted files will be kept for a set amount of time.

In the advanced options of syncthing (web GUI) you can turn off deletions for every sync folder respectively.