Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.
Just FYI, mirrored backups are great as a solution to complete failure, but… File corruption or just accidental deletion can mean you don’t notice files are just straight up missing.
This is the same problem with cloud storage, but there are solutions like rsync and only backing up the differences that can alert you to large volumes of file changes during the backup.
Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.
I can recommend Storage Box by Hetzner starting at 1TB for ~4EUR/month. Been using it for a year or so.
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Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.
Just FYI, mirrored backups are great as a solution to complete failure, but… File corruption or just accidental deletion can mean you don’t notice files are just straight up missing.
This is the same problem with cloud storage, but there are solutions like rsync and only backing up the differences that can alert you to large volumes of file changes during the backup.
Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.
Thanks for your input, I appreciate the advice.
I never heard of WORM backups, but it sounds interesting. You gave me something to dig into.