I use a NAS for backup and I am always concerned about the backup being in the same physical location as the primary. I still haven’t figured out the best way to resolve that.
My solution is to have a mini PC in a remote location which boots at a given time each day (BIOS option using RTC Clock). It autoconnects via Wireguard VPN to my home network. I have rest-server running in a container.
Locally, I have a cron job for restic backups to the remote rest-server, followed by an ssh command to update and power off.
When I replaced my first NAS I moved the original to a family member’s basement and run a nightly job to sync what I don’t want to lose between the two.
I use a NAS for backup and I am always concerned about the backup being in the same physical location as the primary. I still haven’t figured out the best way to resolve that.
rsync.net, borg, rclone.
Or get an s3 bucket on AWS, linode, digital ocean and dump things there.
My solution is to have a mini PC in a remote location which boots at a given time each day (BIOS option using RTC Clock). It autoconnects via Wireguard VPN to my home network. I have rest-server running in a container.
Locally, I have a cron job for restic backups to the remote rest-server, followed by an ssh command to update and power off.
Has been solid so far!
Gift a NAS to one of your friends or someone in your family who lives in a very secure location and has very good internet.
Except tell them that the condition for you giving then a few TB on your hardware is that you sync your NAS to their NAS daily
One encrypted backup to the cloud or trade space with a friend.
When I replaced my first NAS I moved the original to a family member’s basement and run a nightly job to sync what I don’t want to lose between the two.