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  • After my Nextcloud server just killed itself from an update and I ditched that junk software, nearly zero maintenance.

    I have

    • autoupdates on.
    • daily borgbackups to hetzner storage box.
    • auto snapshots of the servers and hetzer.
    • cloud-init scripts ready for any of the servers.
    • Xpipe for management
    • keepass as a backup for all the ssh keys and password

    And I have never used any of those … it just runs and keeps running.

    I am selfhosting

    • a website
    • a booking service for me
    • caldav server
    • forgejo
    • opengist
    • jitsi

    I need to setup some file sharing thing (Nextcloud replacement) but I am not sure what. My usecase is mainly 1) Archiving junk 2) syncing files between three devices 3) streaming my music collection



  • It’s funny how it is the exact opposite for me.


    All my WD drives died, while all my Seagate drives are in perfect working order.

    Bought 2 WD hdds new, used them for about 4 years in RAID for daily borg backups, one died, the other got very slow with tons of smart errors.

    Bought 2 Seagate hdds new, same usecase, same capacity, have been running for over 5 years now.


    Personal anecdotes are not a reliable factor for manufacturer quality.

    To quote some statistics:

    In general, Seagate drives are less expensive and their failure rates are typically higher in our environment. But, their failure rates are typically not high enough to make them less cost effective over their lifetime.

    Source: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/






  • Deckweiss@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHow should I do backups?
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    7 months ago

    The software borgbackup does some insane compression.

    It is more effective if you backup multiple machines tbh (my 3 linux computers with ~600gb used each get compressed down to a single ~350gb backup, because most of the files are the same programs and data over and over again)

    But it might do a decent enough job in your case.

    So one of the solutions might be getting a NAS and setting up borgbackup.

    You could also get a second one and put it in your parents or best friends home for an offsite backup.

    That way you don’t have to buy as large of a drive capacity, but will only have fixed costst (+electricity) instead of ongoing costs for some rented server storage.

    I guess that would be about 400$ per such a device, if you get a used office pc and buy new drives for it.


    Tape seems to be about half the price per TB, but then you need special reader/writer for it, which are usually connected via SAS and are FUCKING EXPENSIVE (over 4000$ as far as I can see).

    It only outscales HDDs in price after like ~600TB