Useful apps to self-host

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• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Among my must-have selfhosting items, in no particular order, I can recommend:

  • Portainer, to keep track of what’s going on.
  • Nginx Proxy Manager, to ensure https with valid certificate to those services I want to have available from the outside.
  • Pihole, of course.
  • Gitea, to store my coding stuff.
  • Paperless-ngx, to store every paper in my life.
  • Immich, an amazingly good replacement for Google Photos.

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  • neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Due to some concerns about Gitea’s future I would recommend Forgejo instead. It’s a drop-in replacement with less concerning contribution policies and management structure.

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What are those concerns? Why is it relevant to self-hosting?

      Is it like the rumor that the Lemmy devs are pro-Russia or whatever it was about?

      Honestly asking, here. Not trying to start a flame war, just want to know whether to bother to care about this.

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    • buffaloseven@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been using Forgejo for about 6 months now and I’m really impressed with it. Covers all my needs!

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  • Grunt4019@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you use for scanning for paperless?

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve commented elsewhere on this page:

      Brother ADS-1700W
      Tiny,fast, scans double-sided straight to a network share. It’s the most amazing thing I’ve bought in years, literally.

      The printer has a web interface where you set up destinations, and I set up a file path there. Separately, on the printer itself, you can set it up to do one action automatically when it detects material in the auto sheet feeder, and I used that so it auto-scans to PDF/A and saves it on that network share.

      Then I have Paperless check that path once a minute. So my workflow is literally, drop the paper in the scanner, and 5 seconds later put it in a box, then a minute later I see it in Paperless. It’s bliss.

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  • jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should try PhotoPrism, it’s amazing. All great picks BTW. Gittea had GH Actions compatible runners now!

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have tried Photoprism but was not as impressed by it as Immich.

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  • ssdfsdf3488sd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ha e you looked at dockge? I like it way more than portainer, atleast for single instance. It works with normal compose files so it keeps your stuff a lot more compatible to change and its by the guy who makes uotime kuma.

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you don’t mind, could you please check your typing? You had some obvious typos so I am not so sure of the exact name of the tool you are suggesting.

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  • danielo515@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We aware that Immich breaks one week and then the other week too

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry but that’s not true. I have been running Immich for a long time now, and it is solid and stable.

      A recent update had a change in the Docker configuration, and if you didn’t know that and just blindly upgraded, it would still run and show a helpful explanation. That’s amazing service.

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do people recommend Gitea for self projects? What do you do with it that git+ssh can’t?

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• rutrum@lm.paradisus.day ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Theres so many. Check out the awesome list: github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

  I think your stategy should be one service at a time. Do everything in docker, and start by tackling a simpler service. For example, you should try paperless-ngx. Absolute game changer. I didnt realize how much managing ny own directory structure sucked until I used this. Then, grow your service list more and more!

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  • squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is a fantastic list I’ve bookmarked, thanks. But I do want to highlight OP’s first point where it says:

    …they are too confusing because they list too many apps for each category.

    Might be a little more beneficial for OP to highlight a couple useful for their use case that are fairly beginner friendly? I’d do it but I’m basically in the same boat as OP right now, lol

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• taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would avoid self-hosting backups at the same location where your devices are currently kept. There is a reason off-site backups are a thing. So many failure causes are shared with devices in the same home, from electrical issues (lightning and technical defects among other things) over water and fire damage to theft.

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  • rentar42@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That being said: backing up to a single, central, local location and then backing up that to some offsite location can actually be very efficient (and avoids having to spread the credentials for whatever off-site storage you use to multiple devices).

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I should have written “your only backup”, obviously it can’t hurt to have both.

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  • fahad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Will need to research it as I’m not aware of it. Thanks for the heads up.

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  • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d say it’s about designing a good strategy. I have local backups on my NAS and a nightly incremental backup to cloud locations from there. That way the capture from my local equipment to the NAS is lightning fast and it’s not a big deal to have it take a few hours to reach the cloud. Also having a NAS on a power backup is a must-have.

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• Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Syncthing for back ups. Lovely and easy to use.

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  • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As long as it’s set to keep copies. Else it’s just a way to sync your accidental file deletions.

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• PlantObserver@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For the downloading media part:

  The *arr stack is what you’re looking for + Jellyfin for streaming (Opensource, 100% free, and much better than Plex).

  Prowlarr: manage your indexers Radarr: find/automatically download movies Sonarr: find/automatically download tv shows Jellyfin: streaming your media

  Look up trashguides for setting up all this stuff, very detailed guides. They are compatible with torrents and Usenet. I like using docker with portainer for easy management and if you use a VPN container you can selectively route these containers through the VPN so your other services that dont require the VPN dont need to route through it.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jellyfin for streaming (Opensource, 100% free, and much better than Plex).

    *Better for your wallet and the privacy, not better in any functional way.

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    • Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Plex gotten around to av1 transcoding yet?

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    • erre@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it depends on your clients. If you’re using Roku, you can skip Jellyfin…sadly.

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    • PlantObserver@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve used both extensively and stand by my statement, from a functional standpoint as well.

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• tdc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I want apps that let me access my data from anywhere

  This may sound exaggerated, but paperless-ngx combined with a good network scanner will change your life. All paper mail accessible anywhere and also searchable. Plus, it is much easier to just scan something and drop it in an archive box instead of trying to figure out which folder (banking or taxes or maybe bills?) to file it in AND still remember that decision years later when you need to find it.

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  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Brother ADW1700

    Tiny,fast, scans double-sided straight to a network share. It’s the most amazing thing I’ve bought in years, literally.

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    • OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Since I have this exact problem and need… I went looking. By any chance did you mean the Brother ADS 1700W? If I’m going to take recommendations from strangers on the internet, I want to be sure I get it right. =)

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  • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My printer/scanner doesn’t scan to FTP. Anyone out there shopping for a Brother Laser, step up to the MFC series that doesn’t require USB to scan, and also hardwired Ethernet. It’s only another $50 and will also include a document feeder.

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• randombullet@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have only a few services. I could probably downscale my server.

  • AdGuard DNS

  • Tailscale and Zerotier

  • Open Media Vault

  • Jellyfin

  • Uptime Kuma

  • Graphana / Prometheus

  • Torrent/seed box

  All on Proxmox and mirrored ZFS 2 x 20TB

  For backups I use FolderSync and the default backup for windows. Super lazy, but I don’t want to be the IT support of the family.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is there some quick start templates for graphana / Prometheus? I started setting it up and it’s extremely configurable, but I feel like I have to hand craft everything.

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s my issue with Prometheus… I want to have solid monitoring and metrics, but there’s so much setup and I feel like I’m just hosing it all up.

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• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My recommendation: host OpenVPN, change the default port and only access your NAS from the internet using your VPN. Also only allow the VPN port on your router firewall.

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  • LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If this, then I would highly recommend Tailscale or Headscale. Just simplifies this process so much. Tailscale is so darn good, my number one tool of choice.

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  • a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah definitely a good idea. Routing your mobile traffic through it so your carrier cannot access your traffic and the services you don’t want to share location with can’t snoop as much on you.

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I meant more because people generally don’t have as much time to spend on IT security as companies, but yeah, it works for privacy as well.

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  • Discover5164@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this is a great idea but it will only work if they have a public ip

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    • shiftymccool@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on your router. I have an Asus and it has a free ddns option through their domain. I point my Wireguard client at this address and never think of it again. That way, the only port that’s open on your router is a Wireguard port and they don’t respond to sniffing.

      If that’s not a possibility, I had a ddns service before that for like $2/month

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True. But pretty much the same applies for dynamic DNS services, except you have to trust your dynamic DNS provider.

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• lauha@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I saw this cool thing where you could use a Raspberry Pi to access your NAS bios from your PC.

  That’s PiKVM

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• fahad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also, privacy-wise, what do you guys use to keep your home server anonymous/hidden and protected? Is VPN enough?

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  • shiftymccool@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m using wireguard but I hear a lot of good things about tailscale.

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    • rutrum@lm.paradisus.day ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tailscale is a mesh VPN. Its a level of abstraction passed a regular VPN, lime wireguard or OpenVPN. Tailscale uses wireguard under the hood.

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  • LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Totally go with Tailscale, can’t stress how nice it is.

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    • CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How does it compare with a VPN?

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tailscale will give you encrypted access to all devices everywhere, including iOS. For any hardware that can’t run Tailscale, you can use any Tailscale client on the same network to be a subnet router - other Tailscale clients can then access that network via that client. I do this with a Raspberry Pi.

  Once you have a mesh network like Tailscale setup, you can use native tools to copy files, etc, because the the mesh network provides the connection.

  Checkout Syncthing and Resilio Sync. Both are great sync tools with different features. I use both, but rely primarily on Syncthing since it’s much better on memory use on Android. I use Resilio just for its on-demand sync feature.

  Syncthing can also run on an Rpi. I’m pretty sure Resilio can too.

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  • fahad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m 50/50 regarding tailscale; from what I heard, it’s not full open source.

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    • randombullet@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can use Headscale. The open source version of it.

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    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The important part is open source (the client) so you can verify everything that has to do with your privacy.

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• NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just discovered this and it's awesome, if you're into gaming at all. It's a containerized console emulator suite, and I think it is very well done. https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-emulatorjs

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• Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You should host the internet.

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  IP	Internet Protocol
  NAS	Network-Attached Storage
  VPN	Virtual Private Network

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  [Thread #351 for this sub, first seen 14th Dec 2023, 10:45] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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• Bdaman@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My personal lists:

  Adguard Home Channels WireGuard for remote access (this is the only open firewall port) Firefly-iii (for personal accounting) Nextcloud for files,calendar,and contacts

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• pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Adguard Home or pihole is a must. Jellyfin is also pretty cool.

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• fahad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For accessing files from your smartphones, I know there’s Nextcloud; what other foss file management tools are available, especially on the phones?

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• Tolstoy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it custom build NAS or something like Synology?

  As already mentioned for proper backups you should locate the NAS somewhere else.

  I’m not an expert by any means so don’t take my word for it. I’ve tinkerd with some pies befor but this was my proper first project: a NAS for my family (multiple households).

  If it’s for personal use, you can use a VPN to your local network. It’s by far the safest option and easier to setup.

  I went with OMV (openmediavault) for local sharing as OS + Docker + portainer. For the backups and access I went with Docker Nextcloud and Docker Swag (letsencrypt) and a reserve proxy with duckdns since I don’t have a fixed IP. Nextcloud setup was the easiest part and not really a hassle. With a VPN you won’t need to tinker with the “access from net” stuff.

  For syncing files on Android I would recommend Autosync since it’s the most reliable one IMO. No other OS tested so far.

  Nextcloud can handle a lot on its own and for something special you will find a proper plugin. For the download needs you may find some docker containers.

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  • fahad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Custom build NAS

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• Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are some different way you can achieve many of these. There are like the cloud collaboration suits, and syncthing way

  I want to sync my calendars and contacts For this You can have something like nextcloud or it’s alternatives, or syncthing with decsync, or a separate caldav service

  I want to download media like TV shows and movies. (And music, too). “Of course, only legal obtained from the internet cough.” I personally use jellyfin + transmission. I’m still trying to set up *arr suite, but it’s not working, then I could use something like jellyseer. But transmission is working well anyway

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  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ugh, Nextcloud. It is always touted but it is such a pain to set up properly, and then it is slow as molasses.

    I’ve tried, and I’ve tried the similar suite from Synology, but in the end always come back to the Google system - much as I hate to admit it, Google “just works”.

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    • pgetsos@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nextcloud is literally "Jack of all trades, master of none". It tries to do EVERYTHING, and it fails to be even decent in most of these things...

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    • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For me google isn’t “just works”. Very few functions in the ui, pretty slow

      I use nixos, so configuration for me is not that painful. And every version it becomes faster and faster, and right now it’s pretty fast

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    • aard@kyu.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ugh, Nextcloud. It is always touted but it is such a pain to set up properly,

      The problem is mainly maintenance - they do YOLO style database handling, so you can’t miss any release or you have fun upgrading. Plus you need to kick it after installing to upgrade the databases.

      Other services (like SoGO) have proper upgrade scripts, and automatically adjust the database schema from pretty much any version on first start after upgrading.

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  • Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    3-2-1 means 3 copies total on 2 different media with 1 copy off-site. An easy way to implement would be make a local copy outside of your NAS/RAID(different NAS or external HDD) and create a copy of that somewhere in the cloud or hosting(backblaze for example)

    You should probably not look at your whole storage when thinking about Backup, but create different logical pools. For example I have 3 pools: media files, personal files&photos, app config files for my docker.

    I don’t backup the media files because I can reacquire them, I have a very strict backup policy for my personal files and a more relaxed policy for my config files.

    I use duplicacy to manage a local copy and a cloud copy and do restore tests sometimes. Duplicacy can also manage retention of its snapshots so I can keep years old versions of my personal files but only a few weeks worth of config

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    • fahad@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you for the info. I thought I was going to have a lot of data, but I don’t; that including media, which, as you said, can be reacquired with no need to backup, saves a lot of storage space. I have approximately What do you use for local backup? I’m also looking at cloud storage for offsite backup.

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