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.
I follow the good 9pd 3 2 2 rule. Three backups, in two locations, one is remote.
First copy on an external hard drive that gets mounted only for that, then unmounted.
Second copy still at home, on a disk connected to an OpenWRT access point in the patio.
Third copy on my VPS, so remote.
Each night restic take care of all that.