I wanted to see what others are using and recommending. I’m looking at going over to a self-hosted NAS option primarily for backup but ideally to work off of too.
I have only about 80GB of backups, only about 5GB are files I often use and access. I want to switch so I have full control over my data but would still plan to make encrypted containers to upload to cloud storage for redundancy.
An option that does have some type of automatic sync/backup would be ideal, and it would be setup for local use only. I won’t ever have to access it remotely.
So far the best I’ve found would be something like “Synology DS220+”. I originally considered setting up a local ubuntu server and use something like sftp for backup but its more time extensive and lacks added features.
What’s your recommendations? And if anyone knows of software to remove duplicates, it’d save me maybe 20GB of storage. Thanks!
A NAS would be perfect, some routers also have USB ports in them to host network shares using external drives.
If you really want to dive in, I use Duplicacy to upload to my server hourly, and then I have another Duplicacy instance running on docker on the server that uploads daily to a remote share.
Why duplicacy? I currently use Rsync and Rclone to and from various cloud providers.
It’s honestly the most baked solution that I’ve tried. To be specific, I tried straight scp/SFTP, rsync, Backblaze Personal, and Duplicati. Compared to those, it really feels like night a day. It has a nice dashboard, an alert system, but most importantly it has check jobs to ensure your data is actually there and intact.
With just a initial look at rsync, that would work as well but I’d have to setup with WSL on windows. Probably a better open source option but more manual setup.
I’ll check it out more but a dashboard with easy use and setup would be best for me. Thank you for mentioning them, I do run linux too so I might have to use that.
That looks appealing! I’m gonna look more into that, looks like the personal license only supports one device and I don’t think it would work for mobile devices but I’m sure I could find a mobile app for local share backup.
Thank you!
I use Nextcloud to do my mobile backups to my server, which are then included in the daily remote backup 😄
