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Backups of Backups (lemmy.today)

submitted 7 months ago by loopy@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi all, I'm just getting my feet wet in self hosting and have a plan to start with Nextcloud on a Pi 4 for photo backups, and then try other things for calendar, phone backups, media hosting, etc.

One thing I worry about is losing my data. I have heard "if it's not backed up in two locations, it's not backed up." I'm curious what all of you do for backing up the setup. Remote backup to hard drives in the garage? Pay for cloud backup and encrypt it? Just another backup site over wifi in the house?

I'd be most afraid of losing photos and if there were a house fire or something. So my inital thought was a way of backing up to a server in my detached garage in a weather resistent container, but I want to know what you all think. Thanks for any insight.

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[–] Saltarello@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Once had problems with an internal drive so each device I run uses an external SSD/HDD. Anything important that has an "export data" or backup option such as Paperless I'll export/backup & put that into Nextcloud. Nextcloud files are synced between multiple desktops, one of which then gets automatically backed up to a separate drive each week.

For all my other self host stuff I since deployed Kopia to perform nightly local backups of each thing I self host. Once per month a Kopia backup for each software gets moved to a separate drive.

On top of that, things I deem as particularly important get encrypted in Cryptomator & uploaded off site.

No doubt there's probably better/easier ways but thats my current workflow.