Selfhosted

OVH S3 is extremely cost effective and in a privacy respecting jurisdiction far from DrumpfGhanistan

OVH Storage Server with Proxmox Backup server (you can also use if for non-Proxmox clients,btw) and a additional S3 bucket at another hoster.

a nas at the opposite ind of the house. If the whoue house goes boom, I have bigger problems to worry about than my data

Most of the time just rclone pointing to the cheapest storage provider I can find and a daily task at night in my NAS.

Now I'm using idrive

Im using k8up to back up to s3 weekly

I use physical drives that I backup and swap weekly. I'm not a business and this is good enough for the things I want to save, in case everything goes BOOM! I was probably one of the first to say "A Cloud? That would be just someone else's computer. Why would you store your valuable data in somebody else's computer? That makes no sense!"

I don't have any :')

My "cloud backup" is a NAS in another room. If the house cathes fire, there's an earthquake or the volcano I live close erupts I say bye bye to everything

My backup method

On a serious note, I'm working on it. I have another proxmox node which I'm in the process of building, which should have a backup system. So weekly backups from my main proxmox node will be transferred to the backup node.

I look up at the clouds and pray my hard drive doesn't crap out.

I use Backblaze personal backup for $9 per month with unlimited storage. I’ve backed up many terabytes without an issue.

I donated a server to my brother across the country to use as his media server, it also doubles as my own offsite backup. And vice versa for his, although he's not really tech savvy enough to care.

To me backups in the cloud are no backups. I could never physically get to the disk and someone else controls my account.

My 1st backups go to a NAS (with encrypted raid disks) in my garage that is 35 meters away from my house. The 2nd backup are encrypted files (encrypted disks are not practical, it's a challenge after power-dips etc) to a storage at my daughters place. That second option goes via my own vpn which also gives me the opportunity to go out on the internet there (convenient for some tv shows my wife wanna see)

A Hetzner Storage Box, 1TB for 3,89€

My cloud is at my parent's house in a different continent.

48tb of my own data and hardware.

https://www.idrive.com/pricing this is who I use, 35 bucks a month for 50 TB

I use Backblaze B2. About 512GB for about $3-4 a month. Its my secondary backup so hopefully will never have to use it 🤣

My solution is surprisingly Microsoft OneDrive, but hear me out. I have the family plan that gives you 1TB per account and you can have up to 6 in the family, giving you a total of 6TB. The thing is, I don't trust Microsoft, so I use rclone with a crypt remote that encrypts everything before it reaches OneDrive and the encryption key lives in the rclone config on my machine. Make multiple local copies of this file and you're all set. You can replicate this with any storage provider and you don't have to trust them.

I use borg backup to a Hetzner storage box, which costs $5 a month.

For a gui interface, I've been using Pika backup.

Restic. Nightly backups to local, then Cloudflare R2, then BorgBase. All free.

I have a vps I use for other stuff, and put syncthing on it. My files are replicated between it, my computer and my phone. On the vps I activated the setting to store old versions

For photos I use hetzner's storage share, a nextcloud offering. Photos are browsable with nextcloud's "memories" app, really useful.

I don't really believe in "backups", ie a full copy of the content in another format that is unusable unless you run it through a special restoring process. If the files are being copied, why not make it useful ? Syncthing makes it so all environments are equally usable, and the versioning prevents mistakes. There is no restore phase: the files are already usable.

I really think we need to move our thinking away from the one-machine-with-copies mindset, and architecture our usages around multiple-machines-by-default. If the goal of backups is resiliency, a syncthing clusters achieves that.

I bounced around a bit after Storj decided to hate consumers and institute massive minimums.

I've landed on Backblaze B2, S3 compatible. Add others have mentioned, doing a shared NAS 2 NAS hookup with a friend or family member is a nice ideal way to do it without monthly fees.

I use Borg backup from my PCs to a NAS (QNAP), and from there using the built in backup software to go off-site. My self hosted PCs will mount NAS drives directly (like immich and audiobookshelf) and those are also in the NAS off-site job.

I use Filen, I don't know if they still do it but you used to be able to buy a lifetime plan for a one-time fee that was like 50-100GB or something like that, and you could stack them. So I just bought several during a Black Friday sale.

Running server backs up to two local disks which can each hold 2 days at a time, but they both hold the same 2 days. Every night the most recent backup is uploaded offsite (friend's house) where is stored versions in a normal scheme.

Hard drives in an old Mionix mouse box padded with bubble wrap, regularly swapped between 2 locations.