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?

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    3 days ago

    If you use btrfs (nice for simple ad-hoc raid1 setups) then https://github.com/digint/btrbk is a very nice tool to automate snapshots and backups over ssh.

    You can also improvise a setup with an external usb drive that you only connect once a week or so to do longer term backups. This isn’t exactly an off-site backup but somewhat similar if you store that drive away from the servers.