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The only thing missing is a good backup.

If you are storing anything important – especially Immich and Vaultwarden data – you should have a good offsite protection strategy. And even the HASS config should be backed up with versioning because rebuilding from scratch could be painful once you get deep into it.

I’ll let others chime in on possible good backup options because I use Veeam and Azure, which really isn’t in the spirit of this community, and I’d be interested in good open source options myself.

Also, RAID (mirroring) is NOT a backup.

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tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Not wrong, just saying that every Vaultwarden client is a backup basically since they cache everything and it doesn’t expire.

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- InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  And you can even export it there.
  
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Verax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Could I go with an external hard drive and make a backup there? I don’t think an offside backup is possible for now only a cloud service would be an option.

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- IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yep, that would work fine for the first line of defense. Eventually, you can expand it to copy, replicate, or drive swap the onprem backups offsite somewhere (e.g., cloud, office, or family member) if you want to protect your data from site loss (e.g., house fire).
  
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  - Verax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    OK I think family is not an option so maybe I will take something like koofr into account
    
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- LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Get two external hard drives and swap them into a fire safe occasionally.
  
  That way if there’s a need to evacuate you can just grab the fire safe and run.
  
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- phx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I run backups to a USB drive which is way to grab in the event of an emergency. Just make sure you test them every more and again, and possibly only connect it when needed if you’re at all worried about malware (a cryptolocker will happily take out any attached storage if your machine is infected).
  
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gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yes!

Someone in this community once said that if you’re not ready with a backup plan, then you’re not ready for self-hosting.

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