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How do you backup important things you store in selfhosted clouds?

I’m currently thinking about hosting Ente myself for syncing all my pictures. Maybe also spinning up nextcloud for various other shared files. However, for me one main benefit of using services like iCloud is the mitigated risk of losing everything in case the hardware fails (and fire, theft, water-damages, …).

Do you keep regular updates on hosted services? Do you keep really important stuff on other providers? Do you have other failsafes?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
  1. Entropy is a law of our universe. All data wants to be lost given a long enough timeline and without attention.

  2. Divide your data into what you can't do without and what you may not care about losing.

  3. Take a backup out of your hands, make it as automatic as possible.

  4. I sync to encrypted folders on Google drive then use msp360 cloud to automatically copy everything in that drive to another cheap cloud storage that is client side encrypted.

For the protection it gives me, it's cheap.