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I have a home server that I’m using and hosting files on it. I’m worried about it breaking and loosing access to the files. So what method do you use to backup everything?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Duplicati and backup server to both another PC and the cloud. Unlike a lot of data hoarders I take a pretty minimalist approach to only backing up core (mostly docker) configs and OS installation.

I have media lists but to me all that content is ephemeral and easily re-acquired so I don't include it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Duplicati is great in many ways but it's still considered as being in beta by it's developers. I would not trust it if the data you back up is extremely important to you.