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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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[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ahh ok, that makes sense. Hah magical algorithm.

Yeah it’s about 30TB of photos/videos. I only recently got into videography which takes up a ton of space. About 25% of that is videos converted into an editing codec, but I don’t have those backed up to external drives. I also have some folders excluded that I know have duplicates. A winter project of mine will be to clear out some of the duplicates, and then cull the photos/videos I definitely don’t need. I got into a bad data hoarding habit and kept everything even after selecting the keepers.

I have an in progress folder where I dump everything, then folders by year/month for projects and keepers. I need to do better with culling as I go.

I like that idea, I will incorporate it into my strategy.

Thank you for taking the time to help me out with this, much appreciated!