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I am old school. I just use GNU Tar with the Pax format and multiple external detachable encypted hard drives. Reason is it is simple and a well known tool that is very common with a standard archive format.
I'm curious - how much data are you backing up with that method and how frequently are you doing your backups? Doesn't sound like it would scale well, but I'm also wondering if maybe this is perfect and I've just been over thinking it.
I am using similarly “dumb” back-up system. I’ve two external USB HDDs, to which I copy my home folder every 4 to 6 months. The back-up folder currently has circa 250 GiB, but I don’t use any compression and I also probably do not have to back up my Steam library multiple times.
Yes, it doesn’t scale very well, but at the same time, I do not need to hoard 5 year old data. Yes, I should have an off-site back-up, but if my house burns down, I have bigger problems than losing my old photos.