How to do backups and maintan digital storage?
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Currently, I only back up my home directory to one on-site location. That's it. My server is not backed up. My laptop is not backed up. My external drive is not backed up.
I don't know what to do! People tell me "just build a NAS" but that sounds way too complicated. Others tell me I need five or more drives. I've thought of putting everything on one external drive, and backing that drive up to two larger external drives. For example, I'd get a WD My Passport 4 TB and back it up to several WD My Passport 8 TB. I don't know how sufficient this is.
Currently, I have 500 GB in my desktop PC, 256 GB in my laptop, and 256 GB in my flash drive. I also have a few 16 GB flash drives and 500 GB internal HDDs laying around collecting dust. I don't know how to use all these at once. I don't have a whopping 8 SATA ports!
And how much does all this cost? What supplies do I need? What setup do I need to do? There are so many complications.
And I don't use Google, so I need to have good digital storage.
Thanks.
I've found the WD My Passport drives to be extremely unreliable and have had multiple fail over the years.
I stopped caring much if I lose my data, but do keep some important files (password managers, specific documents) mirrored. I find it easiest to use Syncthing to synchronize those important files across all of my devices.
For everything else I have an older computer set up as a server running NextCloud with no backup or failsafe. You could do something similar with FreedomBox.
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I have several TBs of data to save (most space taken by photos and music), then I store in on a PC at home and I use samba (for local access) and sftp (for remote access) to access it. The computer has a single disk (it is a small form factor) and since there is no replication of all the data, I have another computer in another place and I configured borg, with borgmatic, to do a daily backup to it. The two computers are running Trisquel.
If the amount of data you have is small enough so that is is ok to be replicated on every computer you use, the easiest solution is syncthing, with a small deskop PC at home running permanently. With syncthing, there is nearly nothing to configure. For sftp, you need a way to make your computer accessible remotely, which may be a bit more complicated depending on your ISP.
Initially, I had a synology NAS with 5 disks and I tried putting 5 more disks on my D8. However, the power consumption is too high to leave it always on, and if for some reason the computer is not working, it is very difficult to find a computer that can accept 5 additional disks, so I concluded it was not a good idea at all.