Comment on Recommendations for data backup solutions ?
eli@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Your situation sounds like a two server solution for local. So one server for hypervisor/vms and then snapshots and backups go to a separate box like a NAS. As for “house burning down”, a solution for that is off-site backups. I’m guessing building a small TrueNAS server and installing it at a friend’s house or your parents or whatever and then find a backup solution to sync(syncthing may be an answer here for you?).
I don’t care about my homelab much, but I do care about my family photos. For that I follow my own 3-2-1 where:
3 copies of my data 2 copies are local 1 copy is off-site
I have a NAS at my house and another NAS at my parents house. They are both linked with syncthing and I do a one-way backup to the other NAS. Now, my parents are a 10 minutes away by car, so I consider that NAS “local”.
And then I backup my NAS to backblaze for my off-site backup.
waterproof@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
So, setting up an entire server might be overkill for the amount of data I truly want to never lose (passwords, some pictures, some important documents, maybe some music if there is space left) , but asking a relative i see every once in a while to just keep a drive or even a USB stick in a desk somewhere is probably the easiest and reliable option.
Thanks for the suggestion !