I’m shifting my offsite backups once again. It’s not what I wanted to do with my Saturday morning. In keeping with a 3-2-1 backup strategy where the “1” stands for “at least one backup offsite” I am discontinuing my OneDrive backup in favour of Wasabi once again.
If I can’t rely on my backups, what can I rely on?
OneDrive has become unreliable. My backup of home photos and videos is close to topping out the free 1TB storage. I’ve put Duplicacy pruning in place and it’s working on the local copy. OneDrive? I’m not so sure. There is 100GB of unidentified space being used and I can’t find it to remove. When I’m so close to the limit, that causes a space problem. Querying hundreds of thousands of files to check which need deletion is also causing timeout problems. I simply don’t know the state of my remote backup.
Welcome back Wasabi
I had been happy with Wasabi for a couple of years. Once a backup was first seeded, my internet speed was ample enough to keep up. The cost was, and still is, reasonable. Although I had hoped to save money by using OneDrive, those savings are at their limit.
This morning I deleted my remote OneDrive backup (I have another copy on HDD at the office) and have begun seeding the 850GB of backup. It is going to take 10 days. Thankfully Duplicacy is smart enough to keep local backups running and then bring the others into sync. Note to self: Turn of pruning on the local copy so you don’t cause problems.
But what about Zotero you ask?
Good question. The local copy of Zotero is failing to back up after upgrading Duplicacy’s web agent last week. I don’t know why and can’t yet pry open any understanding why. It is likely a permissions error from NAS to NAS which can be caused by something as simple as getting the boot order right. It’s strange as the backup from Windows to NAS-02 is working fine to the same backup location.