Comment on Backups of Backups
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 days ago
- every VM with state backs up its state to the NAS once a day
- client devices rsync most of their home folder to the NAS once an hour
- at 3:15 in the morning, a Borg backup job starts pushing the days changes to a Hetzner storage box
Through borg, I have the Option to go back to any point in time with the backups. I will probably never need this, hence why it happens in this step, not on the rsync job to the NAS.
Things like movies and tv shows are not backed up, they are replaceable. All in all, about 2tb of documents, pictures, and VM state is backed up to Hetzner, out of the 16tb on the NAS.
Pick and choose your battles.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
For stuff like movies I simply use replication as my backup.
Since I share media with fruends/family, I act as the central repository and replicate to them on a schedule (Mom on Monday, Friend 1 on Tuesday, etc), so I have a few days to catch an error. It’s not perfect but I check those replication logs weekly.
I also have 2 local replicas of media, so I’m pretty safe.