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What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by jkrtn@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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What storage software could I run to have an archive of my personal files (a couple TB of photos) that doesn't require I keep a full local copy of all the data? I like the idea of a simple and focused tool like Syncthing, but they seem to be angling towards replication.

Is the simple choice to run some S3-like backend and use CLI or other client to append and browse files? I'd love something with fault tolerance that someone can gradually add disks to. If ceph were either less complicated or used less resources I'd want to do that.

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[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I use rclone, with encryption, to S3. I have close to 3TB of personal data backed up to S3 this way - photos, videos, paperless-ngx (files and database).

Only readable if you have the passwords configured on my singular backup host (a RasPi), or stored in Bitwarden.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This alongside using Backblaze is what I would suggest assuming you are thinking online. Cheap and reliable, also relatively easy via a cron job. https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260804565710-Quickstart-Guide-for-Rclone-and-B2-Cloud-Storage

[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 3 points 2 years ago

Backblaze don't have a POP in my country, unfortunately.

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

tarsnap makes use of S3. does a decent deduplication job as well