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What are your offsite backup solutions (self.selfhosted)

submitted 2 years ago by maya329 to c/selfhosted

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I've been backing up to a dedicated hard disk within the same server for all my backups in case my disks fail. And as I run more and more services, the concern of disks failures grow bigger.

I'm looking for a cheapish off-site backup solution and I'm just curious what everyone does for their 3-2-1 backup solutions.

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[–] SheeEttin 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, I don't. The vast majority of my data is just stuff like Linux ISOs that I could download again. Important documents and stuff like that take up so little space that I just keep them in Google Drive. Most of my personal project work is on GitHub. And while neither of those are technically backups, it's not a tragic loss if I accidentally delete everything.

[–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you at least encrypt those documents?

[–] SheeEttin 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No. They're not that sensitive. And if I did, I'd lose the ability to search their contents through the Google Drive interface.

I also use SpiderOak, and they say they use end-to-end encryption. That's where I keep my tax returns and other finance stuff.

[–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 1 points 2 years ago

It seems the desktop application for SpiderOak is proprietary, so you can't trust that it works they way they say it does. But apparently the mobile app is Free Software so maybe that one is safe to use.

[–] solstice 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's weird, 10+ years ago or so I feel like I had SO MUCH DATA and it was always an issue. Now I really don't have anything. A few gigs of photos I guess, some various files, but that's it. I guess I used to have a lot more media like movies and porn, which I don't really need anymore.