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After I’m Gone Backup Solution (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by 0933@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Recently I have decided that the backup solution I have been using is far too complex for my family to figure out when I die. I began writing documentation on how they can access photos, videos, documents and so on. In that process I thought, I gotta make this simple.

I’m thinking of just having two 10TB drives in RAID 1 on my desktop that get backed up to Backblaze via restic. Backblaze and similar cloud storage providers can send you a copy of your data for recovery. I think I can sufficiently document this process.

Has anyone else come up with a similar process?

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[-] conrad82@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I don't have a solution really, but I'm also thinking along your lines.

For files I share with my girlfriend, I have set up syncthing. So my server and our phones have a copy of the files, I like this solution. But it wouldn't work for large amounts of data.

For my server stuff, it is backed up encrypted on backblaze. so I guess that is lost. Most files are also rsynced onto a usb drive connected to a raspberry pi (not encrypted). So that should be accessible, except for a linux'y filesystem (probably ext4) that doesn't work on windows

[-] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

syncthing will work with pretty large amounts of data, unless you mean having the storage space on each device is the "won't work" issue.

[-] conrad82@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, sorry - I meant the storage space on mobile phone. or a laptop.

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