Most people realize too late that they didn’t have backups of their data or don’t realize they can easily setup their own media servers at home. What do you use and suggest? Everything from beginner tech knowledge to advance. TIA

  • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have a Nas running nextcloud for general ease of automatically backing up anything important from my phone or pc.

    Nextcloud and important things from the server are backed up using a tool called “restic” which honestly does not get enough mention here.

    Restic is amazing, it supports just about every cloud storage provider out there - could be Amazon S3 or backblaze, but it could also be OneDrive or Google drive. If you’ve got some cloud storage somewhere, restic will probably support it.

    Restic is super clever, it takes snapshots and only backs up any data that has changed - so it’s very space efficient and fast. I back up hourly, it only takes a few mins and if nothing has changed, there cost is also basically nothing. But you can pull back files from any snapshots you keep and when you delete a snapshot, it only deletes data that’s not used by any snapshot.

    This means you can have backups going back months or years at very little data cost. You can restore a full backup, or just a specific file if you need.

    Seriously, restic is amazing and more people need to know about it.