Hi all, I’m just getting my feet wet in self hosting and have a plan to start with Nextcloud on a Pi 4 for photo backups, and then try other things for calendar, phone backups, media hosting, etc.

One thing I worry about is losing my data. I have heard “if it’s not backed up in two locations, it’s not backed up.” I’m curious what all of you do for backing up the setup. Remote backup to hard drives in the garage? Pay for cloud backup and encrypt it? Just another backup site over wifi in the house?

I’d be most afraid of losing photos and if there were a house fire or something. So my inital thought was a way of backing up to a server in my detached garage in a weather resistent container, but I want to know what you all think. Thanks for any insight.

  • un_ax@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I’d recommend using a job monitoring service that will alerts you if it doesn’t get a check in. It’s very useful if your backups fail silently or hang mid-job for some reason.

    I use https://healthchecks.io/ since it has a free tier and it works well.

    • northernlights@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 minutes ago

      Or setting proper mail support on everything so you get an email with full output whenever something fails. Ubuntu’s postfix doc is really good.