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Right now, I have around 20TB of data in redundant ZFS mirrors, so I am somewhat protected against any single drive failing. Critical data is backed up at various cloud providers, but that's only a few gigs of all my data.

Looking at S3 pricing, It seems rather unfeasible to back up my data there or on the other "big" cloud providers, as it would cost me around $180 with AWS or half of that with backblaze.

How and where do you guys back up your data?

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[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

I used to store a bunch of hard drives with ZFS snapshots of my stuff in the garage. Not ideal, but better than nothing, and it’s technically a separate building lol

I only have roughly 5TB of data though.

Definitely looking to improve the situation, cause at the moment I have no offsite backups at all :/

[-] Moosemouse@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It would be marginally risky, but considering how many people have large storage arrays having a “mutual backup compact” between two folks where each can run backups to the others array would help get you an affordable offsite backup for catastrophes.

I see a bunch of people with 10TB of data and 30TB arrays and if two of them got together they would both be reasonably safe from a total array failure.

[-] ddnomad@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

This does sound interesting! Would need some tooling to lay my paranoia to rest though, and some trust towards the other person.

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