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submitted 2 months ago by Anonymouse to c/selfhosted
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While reading many of the blogs and posts here about self hosting, I notice that self hosters spend a lot of time searching for and migrating between VPS or backup hosting. Being a cheapskate, I have a raspberry pi with a large disk attached and leave it at a relative's house. I'll rsync my backup drive to it nightly. The problem is when something happens, I have to walk them through a reboot or do troubleshooting over the phone or worse, wait until a holiday when we all meet.

What would a solution look like for a bunch of random tech nerds who happen to live near each other to cross host each other's offsite backups? How would you secure it, support it or make it resilient to bad actors? Do you think it could work? What are the drawbacks?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Use object storage for media and backups, then use s3 replication to put a copy somewhere else.

[–] Anonymouse 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yes. It's the "put a copy somewhere else" that I'm trying to solve for without a lot of cost and effort. So far, having a remote copy at a relative's is good for being off site and cost, but the amount of time to support it has been less than ideal since the Pi will sometimes become unresponsive for unknown reasons and getting the family member to reboot it "is too hard".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is kinda the same idea but made for what you originally asked for: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There's not much cost with S3 object. It's just a file system in Linux, and replication is a protocol standard.