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Custom remote backup (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by rehydrate5503@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone,

I’m visiting some family in another area of the country soon, and have the opportunity to set up a little remote backup server.

Essentially I would like to set something up that I can ssh into and backup photos/videos/documents from my main server periodically once a month or so. Ideally it would be off until I need to turn it on.

I’m looking for ideas on how to best approach this. What kind of hardware would you use in my shoes? I have a couple of spare raspberry pi’s I was thinking to use with an external drive. I was also considering something like those ugreen nas devices that have been popping up. I would ideally set it up and do a sync before I head there, and then just plug it in. Would wake on lan be advised for this?

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[–] philpo@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I would avoid rasperries like the plague here - they have many downsides when booting up rarely. I'd rather use a Mini PC or ZimaBoard, maybe a build on a MC12 leo (if you can still get it cheap),chuck it all in a cheap case and be good. Unless you have something with IPMI on it I would also invest in a semi professional KVM like PiKVM,JetKVM,NankKVM - and if you can't stop/start power with that due to the device not following the standards maybe an IP switchable plug.

[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was browsing and came across a zima 232 for same price as a pi 5. Piqued my interest. Reason for thinking to use a pi is because I have a spare 3b and 4 laying around. Mind you it seems every time I want to play with it I have to reinstall the os or get a new SD card because the kit ones die.