gbackup is a go tool to help me backup useful information from various systems I am running. This could be something private but maybe this will help someone or give an idea on how to backup stuff using go.

The current backup plan is shown below but I backup the following:

• gokrazy perm partion (resides in gokrazy)
• gokrazy data folder (resides in a LXC in proxmox)
• postgresql databases (resides in a LXC in proxmox)
  • currently I am only doing the backup for the waiw and leak databases
• syncthing folder (resides in a LXC in proxmox)
• monitoring files (resides in a LXC in proxmox)
  • this is files from alertmanager, prometheus, grafana and pushgateway
• work laptop

At first I was using rsync to backup everything to an external hard drive plugged in my proxmox and then use cp to backup everything to a different location (storagepool - HDD that resides inside the proxmox). However now I am using rsync in both backups.

I was using crontab inside proxmox but now I've managed to create a similiar cron using golang so its easier to apply this to any unix based OS without caring if crontab is installed or no.

Then I monitor the rsync commands using Prometheus as shown bellow.