Hello, so, I have been self-hosting some basic stuff recently, including data storage so i don’t have to rely on external services like google drive.

It’s working fine, but I wondered what would be the best backup solutions in case something unexpected and unfortunate happens (accidentally wipe out everything, drives dying, electrical issues, house burning down, that sort of thing).

I was wondering if more experienced self-hosters had recommendations about that ?

Maybe storing a physical drive in an especially sturdy box ? Perhaps using distant cold storage solutions ? Or even something I have never heard of ?

  • zqwzzle@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Depends on your paranoia/fault tolerance level. In general some form of the 3-2-1 backup rule. Personally I use arqbackup:

    1. Local live copy
    2. Hourly differential backups to another network share
    3. Hourly differential backups to an s3 compatible bucket with object lock and versioning so malware can’t wipe the latest 3 months or so.

    Edit: I also forgot, 2 and 3 don’t exist unless you’ve verified that you can restore from them recently.