What does your #selfhosted backup situation look like?
Mine is a box at a friends place with ZFS zrepl based replication hourly. Plus a second box at my parents for geographically distributed safety using restic to separate any ZFS replication issues. Basically a backup of a backup 🎰
@ironicbadger For photos:
* Local filesystem
* iCloud Photos
• Backblaze
• Synology that’s the _actual_ source of record
• Synology at my folks’ house 50 miles away gets a Synology backup over Tailscale nightly
• External drive that gets a rsync every two weeks and is stored on the opposite side of the house
• External drive that lives at my folks’ and I update any time I’m there (also made possible by Tailscale)
• Redundant copy (same account, different computer) at Backblaze
@ironicbadger 🤣
Like I said, most of my data is 3-2-1. But when I was staring down the barrel in 2020 of losing all of my photos, I swore to myself that would NEVER EVER happen.
(tldr, had to rebuild a 6-disk array in my Synology’s array that had 1-drive tolerance. During the rebuild… a second drive briefly died. I was able to recover, but for a few hours I thought I lost **everything**.)
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