I’m trying to plan a better backup solution for my home server. Right now I’m using Duplicati to back up my 3 external drives, but the backup is staying on-site and on the same kind of media as the original. So, what does your backup setup and workflow look like? Discs at a friend’s house? Cloud backup at a commercial provider? Magnetic tape in an underground bunker?

  • emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    “3! 2! 1!” Is just what I say when doing some potentially deleterious action after rsyncing a few key directories to a separate volume

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    3 sticky notes telling me to “go get that incremental backup working”,
    2 separate external hard drives,
    1 month out of date

    • tiz@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Same lol. Can’t be that catastrophic. Right? …. Right?

  • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fishEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    DO NOT follow my lead, my backup solution is scuffed at best.

    3:

    I have:

    • RAID1 array w/ 2 drives
    • Photos on the device that took them
    • Photos on a random old hard drive pulled from an ancient apple mac.

    2:

    I’ve got a hard drive and flash memory?

    1:

    Don’t have this at all, the closest is that my phone is off-site half of the day.

  • brokenlcd@feddit.itEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    A usb stick and an old hard drive from 2009. The crackhead way of dealing with backups.

  • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    I dump my encrypted data to someone who probably practices 3-2-1 rule (which is Backblaze for me). I mean, these guys back up data for a living.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    8 days ago
    • Primary ZFS pool with automatic snapshots
      • Provides 3+ copies of the files via snapshots (3)
    • Secondary ZFS pool at a different location replicates the primary
      • Provides more copies of the files (3)
      • Provides second media (2)
      • Is off-site (1)

    Does this make sense?

    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I don’t think this meets the definition of 3-2-1. Which isn’t a problem if it meets your requirements. Hell, I do something similar for my stuff. I have my primary NAS backed up to a secondary NAS. Both have BTRFS snapshots enabled, but the secondary has a longer retention period for snapshots. (One month vs one week). Then I have my secondary NAS mirrored to a NAS at my friends house for an offsite backup.

      This is more of a 4-1-1 format.

      But 3-2-1 is supposed to be:

      • Three total copies of the data. Snapshots don’t count here, but the live data does.

      • On two different types of media. I.e. one backup on HDD and another on optical media or tape.

      • With at least one backup stored off site.