I’ve been looking through this forum in order to figure out the easiest way I can backup files from multiple servers, without having to install Restic on each host. (I run as much as I can under docker, to make full system reinstalls as painless as possible)
It’s not a massive amount of data, only around 10-20GB on four systems. But there are my VM backups too, which of course are single files that can reach those sizes by themselves.
There seems to be no way to backup from a remote source: Mounting the filesystem so it appears local to Restic is the only solution. In that case, I’ve seen two methods mentioned. Mounting via SSHFS or RClone Mount.
From what I’ve read around here: SSHFS can be unreliable and slow, ending up hanging mid-process on large files. RClone Mount was recommended as a direct alternative. But it seems to require more effort to set up, with specific config options, and was also mentioned as being potentially unreliable in its own ways…
Are either of these options worth fully looking into? Or are they too unreliable to be worth risking my backups on? Are there any other options I could look into for mounting remote sources without interfering with the systems themselves too much?
