I finally got around to setting up backups on my home server. Got borgmatic saving to a raspberry pi I have at my parents house with a big USB HDD attached. Took me weeks of chipping away at it trying to get my head its yaml config, cron jobs and SSH keys but feels good once its all working!

[–] NoRamyunForYou 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

I've actually been thinking more and more recently around setting up a local backup (Nas?) But haven't really done much research and the more I think about it, I wonder what I have to really backup (other than my photos which are stored on an external hard drive and online).

Just before I read this, I actually saw a nice setup using a rpi5 and some SSD's. Is using a rpi a good way to go about something like this?

[–] Takahe 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Was that Jeff Geerlings video on YouTube? That was very cool! But using ssd's are not very cost effective... I'm only using a pi4 as I already had it sitting around. If I was to buy something id get one that can take hdd's natively without using USB or a random adapter from some unknown company online

[–] NoRamyunForYou 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah - I'd only seen a post on his Instagram at the time, but starting watching the Youtube video today whilst prepping for dinner lol. Havent yet finished the video though.

Do you have any recommendations as to what you might look at?

load more comments (8 replies)

load more comments (13 replies)