I have a server running Debian with 24 TB of storage. I would ideally like to back up all of it, though much of it is torrents, so only the ones with low seeders really need backed up. I know about the 321 rule but it sounds like it would be expensive. What do you do for backups? Also if anyone uses tape drives for backups I am kinda curious about that potentially for offsite backups in a safe deposit box or something.

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Edit: You have mentioned borg and rsync, and while borg looks good, I want to go with rsync as it seems to be more actively maintained. I would like to also have my backups encrypted, but rsync doesn’t seem to have that built in. Does anyone know what to do for encrypted backups?

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’ve been using Borg and Hetzner Storage Box. There are some small VPS hosts that actually beat Hetzner’s pricing but I have been happy with Hetzner so am staying there for now. With 24TB of data you could also look at Hetzner’s SX64 dedicated server. It has a 6 core Ryzen cpu and 4x 16TB HDD’s for 81 euro/month. You could set it up as RAID 10 which would give you around 29 TiB of usable storage, and then you also have a fairly beefy processor that you can use for transcoding and stuff like that. You don’t want to seed from it since Hetzner is sticky about complaints that they might get.

    Tape drives are too expensive unless you have 100s of TB of data, I think. Hard drives are too unreliable. If you leave one in a closet for a few years, there’s a good chance it won’t spin back up.

  • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Well, I’m just starting with serious backups, AFAIK you only need to backup the data which you can’t replicate.

    Low seeded torrents are just hard to get, but not impossible. Personal photos, your notes, any other files generated by you are the ones which need backups.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Ideally you want to backup everything that you didn’t explicitly exclude since otherwise there is always something you forgot.

      • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.devEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Well, I have my personal data in a specific folder, everything there is backed up.
        General media is in another one, which isn’t included.