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Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?

Next to paying for cloud storage, I know people who store an external hdd at their parent's or with friends. I don't do the whole backup thing for all the recorded TV shows and ripped bluerays... If my house burns down, they're gone. But that makes the amount of data a bit more manageable. And I can replace those. I currently don't have a good strategy. My data is somewhat scattered between my laptop, the NAS, an external hdd which is in a different room but not off-site, one cheap virtual server I pay for and critical things like the password manager are synced to the phone as well. Main thing I'm worried about is one of the mobile devices getting stolen so I focus on having that backed up to the NAS or synced to Nextcloud. But I should work on a solid strategy in case something happens to the NAS.

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tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It really depends on what your data is and how hard it would be to recreate. I keep a spare HD in a $40/year bank box & rotate it every 3 months. Most of the content is media - pictures, movies, music. Financial records would be annoying to recreate, but if there’s a big enough disaster to force me to go to the off-site backups, I think that’ll be the least of my troubles. Some data logging has a replica database on a VPS.

My upload speed is terrible, so I don’t want to put a media library in the cloud. If I did any important daily content creation, I’d probably keep that mirrored offsite with rsync, but I feel like the spirit of an offsite backup is offline and asynchronous, so things like ransomware don’t destroy your backups, too.

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- hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Sure. With data that might be skipped, I meant something like the Jellyfin server, which probably consists of pirated TV and music or movie rips. Those tend to be huge in size and easy to recreate. With personal content, pictures and videos there is no chance of getting it back. And I'd argue with a lot of documents and data it's not even worth the hassle to decide which might be stored somewhere else, maybe in paper form... Just back them up, storage is cheap and most people don't generate gigabytes worth of content each month. For large data that doesn't change a lot, something like one or two rotated external disks might do it. And for smaller documents and current projects which see a lot of changes, we have things like Nextcloud, Syncthing and a $80 a year VPS or other cloud storage solutions.
  
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ladfrombrad@lemdro.id ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah me too, photos and videos I’ve recorded are the only things I’m bothered about. Backing up off-site all my arrrrr booty is redundant since I’ve shared it to a 2.1 ratio already and hopefully can download it again from people with larger storage than my family member has.

It’s how I handle backing up those photos / videos thou. I bought them a 512GB card and shoved that in a GLi AP they have down there which I sync my DCIM folder to (app was removed from Play Store since it didn’t need updating but Googles stupid policies meant it went RIP…), and I also backup that to the old Synology NAS I handed down to them. I suppose I could use Syncthing but I like that old app since the adage if it’s not broke don’t fix it applies.

Along with them having Tailscale on a Pi4 (on a UPS and is their/my backup TVHeadend server) and their little N100 media box I don’t even bother them with my meager photo collection and works good.

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