I’ve been considering paying for a European provider, mounting their service with rclone, and thus being transparent to most anything I host.

How do y’all backup your data?

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    I do an automated nightly backup via restic to Backblaze B2. Every month, I manually run a script to copy the latest backup from B2 to two local HDDs that I keep offline. Every half a year I recover the latest backup on my PC to make sure everything works in case I need it. For peace of mind, my automated backup includes a health check through healthchecks.io, so if anything goes wrong, I get a notification.

    It’s pretty low-maintenance and gives a high degree of resilience:

    • A ransomware attack won’t affect my local HDDs, so at most I’ll lose a month’s worth of data.
    • A house fire or server failure won’t affect B2, so at most I’ll lose a day’s worth of data.

     

    restic has been very solid, includes encryption out of the box, and I like the simplicity of it. Easily automated with cron etc. Backblaze B2 is one of the cheapest cloud storage providers I could find, an alternative might be Wasabi if you have >1TB of data.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      How much are you backing up? Admittedly backblaze looks cheap but at $6 Tb leaves me with $84 pcm or just over $1000 per year.

      I’m seriously considering a rpi3 with a couple of external disk in an outbuilding instead of cloud

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        Oh, I think we’re talking different orders of magnitude here. I’m in the <1TB range, probably around 100GB. At that size, the cost is negligible.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Also you know it’s also possible to setup backups on the drive connect, also a good thing to turn off the networking beforehead 😶‍🌫️ (Also it’s possible to do “timer usb hub”, it’s not very off-site, but a switch can turn on every X days and the machine will mount it and do the backup, then the usb hub turns off (imagine putting it in a fireproof safe with a small hole for a usb cable))

      Also, i’m using ntfy.sh for notifications And if you’re using raid, you can setup it with on a drive failure