I have uninstalled the Sympl backup module.
Instead, I have these daily backup processes:
- Dump all databases to .SQL files (I might have copied the Symbiosis code for this)
- Daily rsync snapshot to an archive grade disk.
- Borg backup to the same archive disk
- Identical-spec Borg backup to a remote server
Most of the few times I’ve had to restore anything, the daily rsync copy sufficed as the problem was less than a day old, and that’s the easiest to do.
The Borg backups give me daily, weekly and monthly snapshots in a similar way to backup2l in Symbiosis and Sympl.
I have a remote server for other reasons, but if you don’t, backup to the home network like @fogma does is a good alternative, which I’ve also done in the past.
I’m not sure exactly why I chose Borg, but I also used rsnapshot for a while before switching to Borg. It includes deduplication, compression, encryption and seamless working over a network. It take a bit of work to set up but there’s helpful documentation.