I just got my home server up and running and was wondering what you guys recommend for backups. I figure it will probably be worth having backups on cloud servers tjay are external, are there any good services yall use for that?

  • GustavoM@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
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    3 years ago

    As dumb/simple/boring as this may be…? An external hard drive.

    …

    …what? It doesn’t require you to be online 24/7, works at any™ PC, and the speed is really great – even on a potato.

    Unless you work at NASA or at IBM or similars – then feel free to call me dum.

    • raiun@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      While I agree with you, hard drives do have a shelf life. How many years seems to be up for debate but it does exist. If you don’t have multiple drives that are of different ages you may be in a world of hurt one day.

      • randombullet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 years ago

        I have a hot storage NAS that backups to a warm storage NAS.

        I backup every week and scrub every month.

        I have 2 x ZFS1 pools that contains 3 x 20TB disks each.

        With ECC ram, scrubbing, and independent pools, it’ll take a house fire to kill my local storage.

        I also have a constant backing to Backblaze and yearly encrypted backup that I ship to a friend across the world.

    • Arrayrepairman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      That is great for hardware failures, but what about disasters? I would hate to lose my house to a fire and all the data (including things not replaceable, like family photos) I have on my server at the same time because my primary and backup were both destroyed.

      • GustavoM@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
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        3 years ago

        Eh…you’ve got a point there. Then again, there is always pendrives and other extremely small devices where you can copy your (mostly important/crucial) files in and carry it along with your house/car keys or something like that.