Hi all, I’m just getting my feet wet in self hosting and have a plan to start with Nextcloud on a Pi 4 for photo backups, and then try other things for calendar, phone backups, media hosting, etc.

One thing I worry about is losing my data. I have heard “if it’s not backed up in two locations, it’s not backed up.” I’m curious what all of you do for backing up the setup. Remote backup to hard drives in the garage? Pay for cloud backup and encrypt it? Just another backup site over wifi in the house?

I’d be most afraid of losing photos and if there were a house fire or something. So my inital thought was a way of backing up to a server in my detached garage in a weather resistent container, but I want to know what you all think. Thanks for any insight.

  • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I actually still burn 5-8 BluRay disks about twice a year with my most important data (Photos, memories etc.) which I store at my parents house as true immutable offsite backups. Furthermore I mirror my TrueNAS Backup Server every night at my brother’s place through a VPN connection .

    • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      I remember being told cdr aren’t reliable for long term storage. Are Blu-ray better? Looks like there’s something called M Disc too…

      • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        That’s why I burn new ones every 6 months. There’s always some nee stuff to add anyways and it’s easier to just replace the whole backup then.