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Solution for Off-site backup (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

since we get fast internet here during the next weeks, an Off-site backup gets somehow realistically.

Since my Parents-in-law also get fast internet, I discussed with them, to be able to host some kind of Off-site backup at their house.

Obviously, it should consume as little power as possible and should be as easy as possible to install.

My current plan would be to get an old Dell optiplex in SFF and put a 18TB HDD into it. The i just have to connect it to LAN and power at their site.

The machine will be always on and connected via WireGuard to my homeserver.

Any better ideas? Anything I missed?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Really interested in hearing how you would go about pulling this off. It sounds exactly like what I would want to do with certain shares on my Unraid server. Is it literally a script describing what folders to download through wireguard/tailscale/etc at a given moment? Or do you use something like syncthing, with the added instructions to shut the pc down when done?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

More like the latter, except I use rsync (running over SSH) so as to minimize the amount of traffic. I understand syncthing works in a similar manner, but I haven't tried it out (I've heard good things about it though).