how to have offsite backups? backup that is stored outside your home
I want both online and offline.
Online - encrypt locally on your PC then send to server. but where? and how to store information to access this server?
Offline - where? put it on flash drive and bury under ground? but it won't be easy to update the backup... and someone could steal your drive.
OFFSITE BACKUPS
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Relatives' house
If i had a computer interested friend
I would setup a VPN and store shit on each others computers or NAS
safe deposit box
My buddy paul's house who lives down the street.
I use MEGA.
Encrypt locally, put it in the cloud drive, done.
Critical data: Slim flash drive in my wallet, PC, laptop, home server, dedicated server, rotating external HDD that I keep at work.
Important, less important and trivial data are kept on one or more of those locations based on value, replaceability, file size and usage. I might leveraging the free space offered by Google, Dropbox et al at some point, using encrypted data of course.
If you've got family you meet for holidays that's a good option for keeping an external hard drive with encryption in a closet. Update it every time you visit or have two of them and swap.
My backup strategy is very simple, all the media I've got can be downloaded through torrents in a week or two and the files that I want to keep are small enough to fit on a cheap flash drive that has my distro of choice on it with a list of all the packages I've installed.
Sure I've got a timeshift running that does general backups in case a drive fails unexpectedly but I'd be able to get back to normal if there was a flood/theft/house fire in a matter of hours.
I've got almost 30 TB of various media on my server. Thinking about getting a tape drive for backups, maybe some M-Discs for smaller stuff
Why would you even bother with this shit if you plan to buy tape drive?