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Cost friendly data backup (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by TenderVomit@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@kbin.social

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I have a synology NAS where I backup my photos to. What would be the most cost effective way to encrypt and back up this data without having to purchase another NAS and install it at a family member's house. It would be about 5 TB and would not touch the data unless my NAS completely takes a crap.

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My go-to backup strategy is USB hard drives. They're cheap, they're fast, and nobody's going to even try to decrypt them. Buy several, put them in a safety deposit box at your bank, rotate them weekly, and nothing short of a nuclear weapon will destroy every copy of your data at the same time.

[–] Machinist3359@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Great advice, but you lost me at going to the bank weekly :)

My flavor of crazy is I visit family across the country twice/year and drop off a full backup. A bit hard to recover but, nuke-proof.