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?

  • pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    It’s been my obsession for a while! It even starts to feel like a disorder sometimes as I’m struggling to find an ideal solution…

    I ended up centralizing my most important data (family media files and personal documents) in Nextcloud. This data is backed up with Duplicacy - 1 copy to local NAS and another to Wasabi S3 bucket.

    I also use Duplicacy to backup various Docker volumes of the stuff I run at home and my main PC home directory.

    Apart from that, I use Time Machine for Macs with an SMB share on NAS. And Proxmox Backup Server backs up everything which is not in Docker to another NAS share. These backups are replicated with HyperBackup (Synology app) to Wasabi S3.