What I Self-host and Why
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I tend to overestimate what I can do with no prior experience, but with an afternoon to spare I gave self-hosting a go anyway. It took way more than one afternoon.

I’ve only just realised this is an active community (thanks Sept25 Community Highlights) and am very excited to see what you all are up to and interested in. As a brief intro to my setup: https://spsoul.blog/what-i-self-host-and-why/

The one thing I haven’t quite worked out is backups. I know all about 3-2-1, but that’s a lot to setup for a little free homelab like mine. All I’m interested in is having a daily or weekly backup just in case my hard drive gives out . I don’t necessarily want to setup an entire RAID right now or pay another company to handle it, unless it’s relatively painless. What’s the simplest setup you’d recommend for a novice like me?

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden
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    3 days ago

    I take daily snapshots of my Proxmox VMs and put them onto the NAS via NFS. Most of the other stuff gets copied into the NAS more or less automatically (=often forgotten) but most important things are now part of my selfhosted tools so it’s not too bad.

    I still need to have a third place, off-site, but I’m not sure yet how I’ll do it. My drives are encrypted and I would want to have it the same way for the off-site station. I’m imagining something like a small box at my mom’s place that turns itself on weekly and pulls from my NAS, since she doesn’t have a public IP. I’d still need some kind of maintenance possibility but I haven’t thought this through yet.