Those who keep another copy of their hard drive (or whatever other backup source) offsite, where is that? Your mommas house? A storage locker facility? At work?

  • persiusone@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I have another house, about 800 miles away… With another fairly identical setup. VPN at 1gb between. That’s for the replication. Also, have another site, with a VPN, and some rackspace there for periodic backups. My more critical stuff is put in an encrypted drive and left at another location. I like doing things myself and this works for me, but you may want to look into some bucket storage in the cloud, or just a USB drive you can carry offsite on occation.

  • nhorvath@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Mom’s house. Old pc with a bunch of big usb drives on a high shelf in her basement. Open vpn point to point vpn set up so she can use my nfs and I can send backups.

  • Error83_NoUserName@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Onedrive for my documents but that is only up to 1 TB, and more for convenience as i have them available everywhere on all devices.

    Pictures in the locker at work. = 8TB drive

    HDDs in my shed for Movies and Series

    Once my shed is rebuild (bricks and mortar), even the Pictures will go there.

    The point of offsite is: How far do you want to go? If mayor wildfires, floodings, hurricanes and tornadoes aren’t a thing. Or if you build houses that are not made of toothpicks where you live. 25m away, in a separate building is more than sufficient imo.

      • Error83_NoUserName@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Around 4TB

        I take a lot of pictures and tend to keep all the RAW files that are not absolute garbage or test shots. @40-50MB per piece, It goes pretty quick.

        • Quasi_Evil@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Pushing 7TB here. Everything I’ve shot over the last 40 years, both on digital (RAW) and digitized film, plus the scanned slides of about 4 other people and my extensive historic slide/negative collection. I don’t ever trash anything, except for the rare instance that my shutter release gets hit accidentally and I get a burst of 15 out-of-focus boot pictures.

  • EtherMan@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t do backups of a lot. The important stuff that has like, an actual backup, has 2 copies off site. One at my work, one at my wife’s work. Just a regular LTO tape. The vast majority of what I store, is not something I consider important enough to backup as it’s stuff like, dvds and blurays I’ve ripped and still have and thus could get out of storage and rip again should that need arise. I do however donoff site replication. 3 replica ceph pool where one copy has to be off site. There’s again one node at my work and one at my wife’s work, plus ofc the local cluster which for drive constraints in the work nodes, always has two of the replicas. Might add a second node at my work but while we both get to place the servers there, I still pay for power, and wife for power and connection. With power prices these days, it gets kind of expensive.

  • heriomortis@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    LTO tape in a locked drawer at work, I only backup important non-replaceable things like the email server and personal documents/photos.

  • DiabloG1@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    40TB NAS in the comms cupboard at work with a 1G symmetrical line. Helps that I look after the network in the office.

  • Individual_Brick5537@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Safe deposit box, 8TB external drive with encrypted backups of my NAS. Have the same drive locally too and swap them monthly. Current year and prior year folders also get cloud backed up to backblaze.