and bacula kept failing so now i’m using duplicati. thank you /r/lilolalu and /r/lazyzyf for suggesting borg and kopia but idk, i just wasnt able to get it working in the deadline time i needed it up in. but i will try them more now i have a temporary solution running. duplicati so far isn’t bad though. it pretty much only does exactly what i need of it with no extras… i like it so far.
I settled on Bacula. It seemed to do everything I needed and can be expanded in the future. All backups can be on a dr8ve and it doesn’t matter about OS or anything because it’s hosted on a docker and acts like rsnapshot
Firefly is my self-hosted goto but nothing i found beats mint. I wish there was a self-hosted version of that
We use zabbix here. Zabbix is amazing and we put it in all of our templates so any new servers and hosts pop up on zabbix dashboard preconfigured just like that. For logs and security we use an Elastik “ELK stack” which gives us a heads up if anything is wrong in the logs, and zabbix gives us a head up of the systems health all together. Between the two, our health monitor panel combines the two windows so we can see full server health and any problems right there as a todo list for the IT team