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mosjek @lemmy.world
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How do you guys back up your server?

  • My server uses zfs, which allows me to create regular snapshots with sanoid. This makes it extremly easy to quickly recover individual services or vms without consuming a lot of disk space. In case the server is not recoverable, I still send the incremental snapshots to a pi clone with a large hard drive. If you use the native disk encryption, the snapshot can be sent encrypted without the second server having access to the data.This solution with zfs and sanoid/syncoid has often made my life easier and, in my experience, uses less bandwidth and cpu load.

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    What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life?

  • The files are stored in a directory and you can define the default path with an environment variable ( file-name-handling ). If you need a more fine graint solution you can also use storage paths and select it on file level ( storage-paths ). I'm using syncthing to sync the folder structure to my other devices.

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    Welcome to [email protected] - What do you selfhost?

  • Hardware:

    • CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2695v4
    • RAM: 256GB ECC
    • Storage: 4x256GB Enterprise SSD, 4x2TB SSD (ZFS Striped Mirror)

    Software:

    • pfSense
    • Proxmox
    • k3s with Flux and Longhorn
    • Gitea
    • Woodpecker
    • UniFi
    • FreshRSS
    • Grafana / Loki
    • Ntfy
    • Paperless-ngx
    • Vaultwarden
    • Minio
    • Syncthing

    I purchased the server used. The services are mostly running in a virtualized cluster, which is absolutely oversized for the current tasks. However, it has motivated me to learn Kubernetes and the power consumption is within my limits.