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Custom remote backup (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by rehydrate5503@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone,

I’m visiting some family in another area of the country soon, and have the opportunity to set up a little remote backup server.

Essentially I would like to set something up that I can ssh into and backup photos/videos/documents from my main server periodically once a month or so. Ideally it would be off until I need to turn it on.

I’m looking for ideas on how to best approach this. What kind of hardware would you use in my shoes? I have a couple of spare raspberry pi’s I was thinking to use with an external drive. I was also considering something like those ugreen nas devices that have been popping up. I would ideally set it up and do a sync before I head there, and then just plug it in. Would wake on lan be advised for this?

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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This scenario is why my offsite backup is primarily a backblaze b2 bucket, while also running a large media backup to an external HDD once a month which I keep in a storage unit. Janky but effective

Realistically I could coordinate with my brother to set up a backup system at my family's place but it feels like a hassle

[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was thinking about backblaze but the cost would be too high I think, and I have so much spare hardware laying around I may as well use it.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Depends on how much you use it. Since I don't use mine for media, mostly for configs and service data folders, I barely scratch 120GB and I'm literally paying under a dollar a month for it right now.

[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oh that makes sense, yeah that’s cheap. I have a VPS that has 1TB of storage available, so I can easily use that for configs, dbs, etc. That itself doesn’t have backup enabled, but it’s fine for my needs.