How do you backup important things you store in selfhosted clouds?

I’m currently thinking about hosting Ente myself for syncing all my pictures. Maybe also spinning up nextcloud for various other shared files. However, for me one main benefit of using services like iCloud is the mitigated risk of losing everything in case the hardware fails (and fire, theft, water-damages, …).

Do you keep regular updates on hosted services? Do you keep really important stuff on other providers? Do you have other failsafes?

  • lankydryness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I don’t follow the full 3-2-1 rule, but I did want some sort of offsite backup for my Nextcloud so I use Duplicity to back up my user data from Nextcloud, plus all my DockerCompose files that run my server, to an S3 bucket. Costs me like $2/mo. Way cheaper than google drive

  • zorflieg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    1. Entropy is a law of our universe. All data wants to be lost given a long enough timeline and without attention.

    2. Divide your data into what you can’t do without and what you may not care about losing.

    3. Take a backup out of your hands, make it as automatic as possible.

    4. I sync to encrypted folders on Google drive then use msp360 cloud to automatically copy everything in that drive to another cheap cloud storage that is client side encrypted.

    For the protection it gives me, it’s cheap.

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
    3·
    7 months ago

    I use nextcloud and I love it.

    You want to follow the 3-2-1 strategy: 3 copies of your data on at least 2 different forms of media, and 1 backup being off-line.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I use Backblaze personal/unlimited, and have for quite a while. A lot of the other storage options go by GB/price which is fine, but I have a ton of stuff that is irreplaceable such as my music collection of around 80k songs I converted out to flac, pictures, business docs, etc. I realize it’s not really in the selfhosted arena, but Backblaze works out for me. If you are backing up a lot of data, re-initializing multiple TB backups can be a chore. Backblaze has a program where you buy a 10 TB drive from them, they ship you your data, once transferred you can send the drive back for a full refund.

  • sznowicki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    7 months ago

    Borg + hetzner backup storage (that supports Borg and rsync but I use Borg so my backups are encrypted)

  • spanac@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    When I setup my backup strategy, the Hetzner storage boxes showed the best price per TB, and allow ssh / SCP and webdav access.

    I run a virtualized TrueNAS Scale with a passed through HBA and about 6 drives in raid-z2 mode. I setup TrueNAS to do regular snapshots - hourly, daily, monthly and I use the built in encrypted backup options to backup my most important data every night (personal videos and pictures, VM backups, documents, docker volumes).

    This works like a charm and it seems to be also quite stable. If the system ever dies, I can always simply mount the encrypted backup folder on my laptop using rclone, and then manage my files directly using mc.

  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    I have TrueNAS with 2x 6TB HDD’s in a ZFS Mirror

    I plan on getting another 6TB drive, leave it at my parents and have it power on once a week and sync, so that if my house burns down I don’t lose everything

  • RecitalMatchbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I use:

    • 3-way zfs mirror for important data like photos, documents
    • snapraid for bulky and less important data like movies
    • hourly backup of important data and a subset of the less important data (difficult to find movies) to a rpi with a big disk
    • daily backup of the same data to a friend. We have a system where we put a hdd in each other’s server and have ssh access

    Backups are done using restic

  • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I rsync nightly to an old synology box. It’s in an out building, so if there’s a fire, it comes with me.

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    Rest+backrest and the 3.2.1 rule.

    One backup local on an external drive on my server Second backup on another disk connected to a WiFi ap in the house.

    Third off site backup copy on my VPS.

    All done by rest.

  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    I have ResillioSync setup witch syncs between different family members. Both me and my uncle make offline backups of the dataset.

    My pictures on my phone are backupped by iCloud, OneDrive, Resilliosync and Immich … The exports are all posted in the Resilliosync dataset and in Immich.

    My most important files are on Protondrive and I used to make backups using Perfectbackup to my NAS, but since I ditched WIndows I need something else/