- BackBlaze miniOrange SSO (Single Sign-on)product provides easy and seamless access to all enterprise resources with one set of credentials, miniOrange SSO provides Single Sign-on to BackBlaze from any type of devices or applications whether they are in the cloud or on-premise.
- With unlimited online storage for one computer for $60 a year, Backblaze is the most affordable backup service we tested. It’s easy to use on both Windows and Mac. With the software installed.
- Backblaze backups all your data online automatically. Your photos, music and documents are securely stored offsite in our Backblaze datacenter.
This is one post in a series of tutorials on Duplicity. If you are just getting started with duplicity, I would recommend to head over to the first and second part to get a basic overview of duplicity and get GPG keys setup properly (this will not be covered in this post, but is required for the tutorial to work).
You should also have a look at the duplicity overview post, which contains an overview of this series.
The basic configuration from this post will be used as basis in this post to configure duplicity-backup.sh.
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To start with, we will need an account at Backblaze. Once we're setup (verified the account via phone) and have configured 2FA (you do use 2FA, don't you?) we can get started. We'll get 10G Storage for free, free upload and 1Gb free download, just for signing up. This will be enough to get started using backups, and evaluate if this is the right service.
As Backblaze offers a very good tutorial on how to get duplicity setup under Linux, I'll not repeat these steps here.
Rather, we'll jump right in and include Backblaze into the duplicity-backup.sh script, we used previously.
duplicity-backup.sh
The following will assume that Backblaze has been setup and tested successfully using the Backblaze tutorial. Realtek 8192 ubuntu.
Should you have problems with the above Tutorial and getting setup let me know in the comments down below and I'll update this post to include these steps.
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Single site Backup
To backup to Backblaze using the duplicity-backup.sh script we used previously, change DEST to the following to the script:
Don't even mind trying using the above line without inserting your own id/key - this is not my account (and a randomized key).
We now run the duplicity-backup.sh script.
Please note that this method is not recommended as the backup is in only one place. Depending on the requirements, the following approach should be preferred.
Multi-site Backup
As explained in this article, we can simply add backup-locations by appending them to the configuration file.
Remember how we configured our DEST variable:
This mirrors all backups to all configured sites, and fails if one is not available.
Now, open the file configured above and insert the Backblaze configuration
As I already had a backup from previous backups, we need to upload the existing backups first. This way, we won't loose any backup-history.
This can be accomplished by running the following command (please make sure to update both account-id, keys and bucket name to suit your needs)
Github cheats. Folder sync. This way, we keep our history as well.
Closing words
There are a a ton of of options for cloud backups. Backblaze is one of them (and for now, my backup provider of choice). The speed is good (something I complained about in my Hubic Tutorial).
Also the security seems good, and people I trust security-wise like Troy Hunt trust Backblaze with their data.
In the end, it does not matter all that much which provider is used, as long as the backup is executed regularly, tested and implemented following the '3-2-1' rule:
3 total copies of the data - on 2 different mediums, at least 1 off site.
Full disclosure
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We are happy to announce the release of Cloudron 5.4!
For those unaware, Cloudron is a platform that makes it easy to run web apps like WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab on your server and keep them up-to-date and secure.
Cloudron 5.4 adds a dark mode, file manager, Mandatory 2FA, Backblaze B2 support & lots of bug fixes!
Dark Mode
The new Dark Mode brings a beautiful dark color scheme for the Cloudron Dashboard. This new look is easier on the eyes and helps reduce eye strain. The dashboard automatically uses this new look when the OS switchesto dark mode. You can also turn on dark mode per-site using a browser extension like Dark Reader.
File Manager
File Manager allows you to create and modify application files straight from the browser. The File Manager can be access from the Console section of any app.
Clicking on the File Manager button will open a new window:
File Manager supports the following actions:
- Creating new files and folders
- Uploading new files and folders
- Edit files (just click on the file). There is also basic syntax highlighting for the file
- Basic operations like download/rename/delete file (right click on file name)
- Change ownership of file (right click on filename)
Mandatory 2FA
Admins can now require all users to set up two factor authentication. When enabled, all new users will be forced to setup a 2FA during sign up. Existing users will be forced to setup 2FA when they login or reload the dashboard page.
When users login, they will see a modal dialog like below:
Lock user profiles
Admins can now disallow users from changing their email and full name. When locked, the user's profile becomes readonly like below (the edit buttons are missing):
Backblaze B2
Backblaze B2 recently announced support for S3 compatible APIs. Thanks to this new feature, we have added Backblaze B2 as a backup destination.
Univention Directory
We have added support for synchronizing users and groups from a Univention Directory server. To configure, go to the Users view and select Univention in the external LDAP configuration.
Ping capability
In Cloudron 5.2, we dropped NET_RAW caps from containers to prevent them from sniffing internal network traffic. This, however, prevented apps from making ICMP requests as well. We have added a new ping capability in the manifest to allow apps like Statping to make ICMP requests.
Nginx
The nginx packages in Ubuntu 18 are lagging behind. For this reason, we now use the latest stable packages from the nginx project directly. We have updated nginx to 1.8 for various security related fixes in this release.
In addition, we have started hiding the version of nginx in HTTP responses.
- Fix bug where aliases were displayed incorrectly in SOGo
- Bump
max_connectionfor postgres addon to 200 - The mailbox and the mailing list views now have pagination and search support.
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