Backup tools other than restic or borg
I'm in a pickle about backups. I use immich as an addon in Home Assistant OS (HAOS).
I know it's not the standard setup, but it made things way easier for me and I'd prob wouldn't be able to use it otherwise, as I don't have docker/container experience at all.
After all the server setup, library migration and all, I set up a rclone job as means of a library backup to my Google Workspace Shared Drive (the cloud storage I already pay for and has spare space). A daily copy job, and then a weekly sync job to clean-up deleted files. That works fine.
However, yesterday I found that the team here recommends other tools for backup, as rclone is not a proper backup tool. Said tools being restic and borg. Ok, fine, so I went and looked for addons for any of them in HAOS. Crap, there aren't any. I'm stuck now. I cannot just create a new container in HAOS, as that is forbidden. It needs to be an addon.
My options then become:
1. Create a restic addon myself (via AI - Kilo Code etc). No idea of the complexity or feasibility. Never done this before.
2. Set up Proxmox in my server, and Home Assistant OS as a VM. This way I can just install restic as a container (I think) and use it normally.
3. Find another backup tool where an addon exists for HAOS.
I have dived a bit into #2, founda few tutorials about setting up HAOS and then Immich as an LXC, and I shat myself at the complexity of this ordeal. Especially when I already have it all working nicely. Learning and redoing everything JUST for this silly backup tool... yikes. I'm really depressed. I know it's going to be an endless struggle to fix things without proper help and knowledge.
I know it's not the standard setup, but it made things way easier for me and I'd prob wouldn't be able to use it otherwise, as I don't have docker/container experience at all.
After all the server setup, library migration and all, I set up a rclone job as means of a library backup to my Google Workspace Shared Drive (the cloud storage I already pay for and has spare space). A daily copy job, and then a weekly sync job to clean-up deleted files. That works fine.
However, yesterday I found that the team here recommends other tools for backup, as rclone is not a proper backup tool. Said tools being restic and borg. Ok, fine, so I went and looked for addons for any of them in HAOS. Crap, there aren't any. I'm stuck now. I cannot just create a new container in HAOS, as that is forbidden. It needs to be an addon.
My options then become:
1. Create a restic addon myself (via AI - Kilo Code etc). No idea of the complexity or feasibility. Never done this before.
2. Set up Proxmox in my server, and Home Assistant OS as a VM. This way I can just install restic as a container (I think) and use it normally.
3. Find another backup tool where an addon exists for HAOS.
I have dived a bit into #2, founda few tutorials about setting up HAOS and then Immich as an LXC, and I shat myself at the complexity of this ordeal. Especially when I already have it all working nicely. Learning and redoing everything JUST for this silly backup tool... yikes. I'm really depressed. I know it's going to be an endless struggle to fix things without proper help and knowledge.
