https://miroadamy.com/tags/restic/ Recent content in Restic on Miro's World Hugo -- gohugo.io en © 2026 Miro Adamy Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://miroadamy.com/posts/2026-10-01-offsite-backups-with-restic-and-hetzner/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://miroadamy.com/posts/2026-10-01-offsite-backups-with-restic-and-hetzner/ <p>Consolidating a digital life onto one NAS has an ugly side effect: everything now burns in the same fire. In the previous posts I described how I moved decades of files, photos and documents onto a single <a href="https://www.synology.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Synology</a> box at home. This post is about the second half of that story - getting a copy of it out of the house, encrypted, in a way that lets me sleep.</p> <h2 class="relative group">Picking the provider <div id="picking-the-provider" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#picking-the-provider" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <p>The first lesson was that where a company keeps its servers and where it is registered are two different things. <a href="https://www.backblaze.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Backblaze</a> has European data centers, but it is a Californian company, and the US CLOUD Act follows the company, not the building. For a family archive I wanted a European company in a European data center.</p>