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emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

What @AtariDump@lemmy.world said is correct, if it’s critical data, 3-2-1 is necessary. I personally use BuyVM as my offsite as it’s got pretty cheap storage (~$5USD/1TB/month), but if you’ve got family or friends with a decent internet connection, it’s trivial to set up a remote sync job to any offsite Proxmox Backup Server, perhaps on a box stored at their house.

Now, just to throw it out there, my actual ‘critical data’ is way smaller than my total backed up data, including my media library, random ISOs, etc. - it can be worthwhile to determine if you really need to backup everything offsite or if you can sort out some less necessary data, and only upload some data to a remote server. Maybe the answer is yes, and you’ll need to account for that!

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hoppolito@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I took a look at the BuyVM offer you mentioned since it sounds really good, but am I understanding correctly that to make use of the 1TB storage offer I would have to also order a dedicated VM with them to actually make use of it? (i.e. no mounting from a vps with a different provider)

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- emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s correct, I also pay for their cheapest VPS, which is about $3, pretty good overall for my purposes!
  
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hamsda@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Now, just to throw it out there, my actual ‘critical data’ is way smaller than my total backed up data

That’s also the case for me. I’d probably count a few GB as critical. Contacts, Calendar, some photos, some documents.

If nextcloud (or some other alternative) has the ability to regularly export these things to an on-disk location, I could definitely backup that to some cheap hetzner server. This will not be a pbs backup, but I can get by with an offsite-backup done by something like restic or rsnapshot

Thank you for your advice!

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