Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.
Just FYI, mirrored backups are great as a solution to complete failure, but… File corruption or just accidental deletion can mean you don’t notice files are just straight up missing.
This is the same problem with cloud storage, but there are solutions like rsync and only backing up the differences that can alert you to large volumes of file changes during the backup.
Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.
Even if you stay with external drive backups, consider a kind of total loss copy.
You could easily end up being in a fire or some natural disaster and lose both your server and your backups.
An easy way to add this in your life if you’re already going there is a safe deposit box at the bank. You just gotta remember to take a weekly copy over there for safekeeping.
I can recommend Storage Box by Hetzner starting at 1TB for ~4EUR/month. Been using it for a year or so.
Oh, wow! That’s an amazing deal
Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.
Just FYI, mirrored backups are great as a solution to complete failure, but… File corruption or just accidental deletion can mean you don’t notice files are just straight up missing.
This is the same problem with cloud storage, but there are solutions like rsync and only backing up the differences that can alert you to large volumes of file changes during the backup.
Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.
Thanks for your input, I appreciate the advice.
Even if you stay with external drive backups, consider a kind of total loss copy.
You could easily end up being in a fire or some natural disaster and lose both your server and your backups.
An easy way to add this in your life if you’re already going there is a safe deposit box at the bank. You just gotta remember to take a weekly copy over there for safekeeping.
The mirror at my brothers is in another European country 400km away. I think that’s a good protection against natural disasters and fire
Well I’m American so idk how far away that is and it’s incredibly racist of you to assume I would.
If you wanna conquer other countries you better get to learning the metric system.