It's why the paid services are successful. Another option I heard about is to have a "data buddy" so you both install a NAS at each other's house, sort out access etc and that's your off-site.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. My solution is raspberry pi w/WireGuard + HDD at inlaws. Initial backup was done locally, nightly backups rsync'd over (I don't generate a ton of data, so it's mostly just photos from my phone).

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I don't have that kind of internet speed ...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We "only" have ~35Mbps upload, but that's plenty since the initial backup was the only large transfer. Daily backup transfers are generally pretty small for me.

But getting the initial transfer done locally was definitely important for my use case!

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have ~4 mpbs upload ;-;

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You probably don’t generate more than 4 megabits of backup-worthy data on average every second

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly

this is ~10GB every 6 hours (which is probably a reasonable amount of time to run a backup while not interfering with active Internet use).

Basically the only backup-worthy content I generate is casual photos and videos, and these are nowhere near that size (Immich database backups also take up a bit but I could certainly be smarter about how I handle these backups).

[–] nycki@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

who can afford that though?

[–] Forbo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's not all that expensive. The cost of storage is constantly decreasing over time. You can get a safe deposit box for something like $10/year if you also want the added benefit of an offline copy. I haven't looked at cloud storage pricing, so I dunno what that runs.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's not the expensive. I have about 150GB backed up and it costs about $1 a month

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have three copies, one on my nvme SSD one on my sata SSD and one in my OneDrive account which I can only assume is HDDs on the other end so I'm probably doing it right.

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Make sure oneoff the copies is airgapped or append-only so that if a ransomware overwrites your copies you will still have the original.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

For home use it's decent enough to have 2 copies, and 1 off-site.

Especially if 1 of your copies has some kind of redundancy, like RAID 1.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just realised my primary, backup and offsites are all spinning platter disks. When they say two types of storage, what does that mean exactly?

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Differing kinda of storage in case one doesn't work with the device being restored to, or something happens that's more likely to affect one type of media than the other. A strong electrical field could scramble the hell out of spinning rust's magnetic media, while doing nothing to optical media, for example.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I like to add "0"... which somehow relates to not having untested restore systems.

[–] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've got 3 local copies. What are you gonna do about it?

Fr tho, main pc, NAS and laptop. Trying to help friend build a NAS and then swap offsite backup space.