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What backup service do you use? (lemmy.ml)

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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?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I used to have everything backed up to a 2TB USB drive. Which I accidentally dropped down the stairs. I lost thousands of family photos and documents. That changed my backup perspective.

I now have a Synology NAS, with 12TB in a RAID5 array (for a bit of disk redundancy). All my home devices, Proxmox servers etc back up here. The NAS also holds a few TB of media. Attached to it I have a USB hard drive (also 12TB). The NAS gets fully backed up to the USB drive nightly.

I also have a remote Raspberry Pi with a smaller USB drive (4TB) attached to it at my brother's house (in another country), where I backup most of the contents of my home NAS. I don't back up the media, just the important stuff. I might have to upgrade to a larger drive...

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I used to have everything backed up to a 2TB USB drive. Which I accidentally dropped down the stairs. I lost thousands of family photos and documents. That changed my backup perspective.

If it's the only copy, it's not a backup. It's the master.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup :) Learned my lesson the hard (lol) way.

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