Selfhosted

I donated a server to my brother across the country to use as his media server, it also doubles as my own offsite backup. And vice versa for his, although he's not really tech savvy enough to care.

A Hetzner Storage Box, 1TB for 3,89€

I look up at the clouds and pray my hard drive doesn't crap out.

I use Backblaze B2. About 512GB for about $3-4 a month. Its my secondary backup so hopefully will never have to use it 🤣

My cloud is at my parent's house in a different continent.

48tb of my own data and hardware.

Restic. Nightly backups to local, then Cloudflare R2, then BorgBase. All free.

I use borg backup to a Hetzner storage box, which costs $5 a month.

For a gui interface, I've been using Pika backup.

My solution is surprisingly Microsoft OneDrive, but hear me out. I have the family plan that gives you 1TB per account and you can have up to 6 in the family, giving you a total of 6TB. The thing is, I don't trust Microsoft, so I use rclone with a crypt remote that encrypts everything before it reaches OneDrive and the encryption key lives in the rclone config on my machine. Make multiple local copies of this file and you're all set. You can replicate this with any storage provider and you don't have to trust them.

I don't have any :')

My "cloud backup" is a NAS in another room. If the house cathes fire, there's an earthquake or the volcano I live close erupts I say bye bye to everything

Borgbase - 1TB for $90 a year but they have smaller options. I then use Restic as my previous Borg setup kept stopping and couldn't figure out why

I use Backblaze personal backup for $9 per month with unlimited storage. I’ve backed up many terabytes without an issue.

I bounced around a bit after Storj decided to hate consumers and institute massive minimums.

I've landed on Backblaze B2, S3 compatible. Add others have mentioned, doing a shared NAS 2 NAS hookup with a friend or family member is a nice ideal way to do it without monthly fees.

I use Borg backup from my PCs to a NAS (QNAP), and from there using the built in backup software to go off-site. My self hosted PCs will mount NAS drives directly (like immich and audiobookshelf) and those are also in the NAS off-site job.

I use physical drives that I backup and swap weekly. I'm not a business and this is good enough for the things I want to save, in case everything goes BOOM! I was probably one of the first to say "A Cloud? That would be just someone else's computer. Why would you store your valuable data in somebody else's computer? That makes no sense!"

Hard drives in an old Mionix mouse box padded with bubble wrap, regularly swapped between 2 locations.

My backup method

On a serious note, I'm working on it. I have another proxmox node which I'm in the process of building, which should have a backup system. So weekly backups from my main proxmox node will be transferred to the backup node.

a nas at the opposite ind of the house. If the whoue house goes boom, I have bigger problems to worry about than my data

Amazon Glacier at like US$23/month for around 10 TB. It’s going to be a nightmare expense to pull it all back out though, especially after building a new NAS at these current prices.

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I use Filen, I don't know if they still do it but you used to be able to buy a lifetime plan for a one-time fee that was like 50-100GB or something like that, and you could stack them. So I just bought several during a Black Friday sale.

Proton

I don’t use it but I would recommend Kopia due to its content-defined chunking, deduplication, etc. I’m writing a fork of it that allows any Rclone adapter to work as the frontend or backend but it won’t be released for quite some time.

Otherwise I sync most my files to Backblaze by hand from time to time using Rclone and client-side encryption.

I use restic to:

1. A Raspberry Pi with an external 4 TB SSD at a friend's house a few hours drive away
2. Jottacloud

For my needs, I just use a Hetzner Storage Share and nextcloudcmd on a timer. I started doing that mostly because I already paid for the hosted Nextcloud instance and I like that it does file versioning for me and that it provides an easy to use GUI to restore files.

The cheapest options I've found over the years are mostly black Friday sales on lifetime plans. Be careful who you trust, of course. There are lots of scammy ones out there, but there are also some reputable companies that have been around a good long while still offering lifetime plans. Check reviews before buying.

Over the years I've picked up cheap(ish) lifetime memberships with pCloud, Koofr, and Filen. I've already gotten my money's worth out of them.

I use Borg to create encrypted backups on an external HD, and then I periodically sync that to cloud providers. I prefer E2EE services but it's not a strict requirement for backups since Borg encrypts them anyway.

On Windows I recommend Kopia instead of Borg, at least until Borg gets an official stable windows build (planned for 2.0, currently in beta)

I exclude most things I could re-download like games and movies so 1TB covers my needs pretty well.

rclone local Restic backup to a hetzner storagebox.

OVH Storage Server with Proxmox Backup server (you can also use if for non-Proxmox clients,btw) and a additional S3 bucket at another hoster.

To me backups in the cloud are no backups. I could never physically get to the disk and someone else controls my account.

My 1st backups go to a NAS (with encrypted raid disks) in my garage that is 35 meters away from my house. The 2nd backup are encrypted files (encrypted disks are not practical, it's a challenge after power-dips etc) to a storage at my daughters place. That second option goes via my own vpn which also gives me the opportunity to go out on the internet there (convenient for some tv shows my wife wanna see)