💩 Niklas
What's your setup for personal backups? I've just started using restic on an old HDD I found, still looking for a good (cheap) SSD to buy. I think I should use at least two hard drives for backups, maybe even do some fancy RAID... By the way, this post serves as a REMINDER TO DO YOUR BACKUPS!
🎲 James York
Nextcloud on a private server in my office
🦝 Wojciech
I keep my important data on my personal NextCloud, which is on a RAID1 (with an SSD cache), and then every week a backup is made using borgbackup, stored on a server at my university, which also has RAID1. The backup is encrypted so I don't worry about other people accessing it.
💩 Niklas
That sounds very reasonable, thumbs up! :) Are you running the NextCloud server from your home/university and if from home, is it accessible (to you) from the internet?
🦝 Wojciech
The NextCloud is at home (therefore, the backup at uni is in a different location, physically, so, bonus points :D). We have a public IP (it was free and I think we didn't even have to ask), so it is accessible from the internet. (The "server" is a budget Ryzen 3 based PC sitting in a wardrobe, because Ryzens are quite power efficient.)
🥝 Mr
I've used them all: hard drive, raids, NAS, cloud. Pro's and con's. They all kinda suck. My favorite "backup" system so far is still icloud for the iphone. You can literally buy a new phone, log in to your account and it replicates everything over perfectly. I kinda wish PC had something like that...
💩 Niklas
I haven't used icloud before, but I can imagine that it works really well in the closed environment it runs in. For me there'd just be the issue of having my data stored on another computer unencrypted, I assume?
🥝 Mr
All icloud data is encrypted in transit and on disc with icloud. It's also encrypted on device itself so i really don't have any concerns about that. It's been a pain to encrypt everything I own over the past couple years... It's nice that apple just encrypted everything without user intervention. Most people don't even know.
👨🏻💻 Moroni
Oh, funny you asked that. One of my backup HDs is failing and I was stupid enough to not have that data in a second backup. I went to a data recovery lab and got an estimate of $400 to recover it. :(
💩 Niklas
Ouch, $400 hurts, but at least they managed to recover it and you (hopefully) learned a lesson along the way and won't have to deal with a similar issue ever again :)
🤔 David
I'm bad. I have ~10 TB of data to backup just from my desktop...I really need to setup a schedule for backing up certain things.
💻 Kernel
I have two 2TB harddrives both with 2 partitions. One partition is for various media and the other is a shared software RAID 0 across the two drives.
💩 Niklas
Do I understand correctly that your media is stored redundantly on both drives and one of those is your working hard drive? Are both hard drives always connected to your machine and how often do you do backups?
Miso
I realize I don't do much backups! Most of my work or files are in some shape or form on the cloud already. Which is scary now that I think about it.
💩 Niklas
Do you have those cloud backups encrypted? I thought about putting some encrypted backups on the cloud as well, just in case of a total catastrophe. But then again, is my data really that important in that case anymore?