How do you backup important things you store in selfhosted clouds?

I’m currently thinking about hosting Ente myself for syncing all my pictures. Maybe also spinning up nextcloud for various other shared files. However, for me one main benefit of using services like iCloud is the mitigated risk of losing everything in case the hardware fails (and fire, theft, water-damages, …).

Do you keep regular updates on hosted services? Do you keep really important stuff on other providers? Do you have other failsafes?

  • RecitalMatchbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I use:

    • 3-way zfs mirror for important data like photos, documents
    • snapraid for bulky and less important data like movies
    • hourly backup of important data and a subset of the less important data (difficult to find movies) to a rpi with a big disk
    • daily backup of the same data to a friend. We have a system where we put a hdd in each other’s server and have ssh access

    Backups are done using restic