What do I backup and where?
I back up everything. I have a lot of time and memories invested in the data that I have curated over the years, and I have been bitten badly onceonce, and lost a massive amount of data. Now I’m self-hosting, so I dohave the following:
I have aA USB keyring that has the latest version of the Yunohost image. In the event of a total disaster, one that requires a complete rebuild, I can boot from the USB keyring and restore the system. I have a small wired keyboard and a tiny 8-inch monitor so I can do the necessary... I check every few months with the Yunohost website and grab the latest image and update the keyring. Every six months I plug everything up, the keyboard, monitor and boot from the keyring, just to make sure it all works. well you never know...- Two 2TB USB drives for backing up to. (Old fashioned spinners!)
- One drive is labelled "YNHRECOVERY". This is where my server does its backup using my cron job from earlier.
- 1. Symbolically linked to store all the Yunohost backups that are created from my cron job.
- 2. A backup of the mega important stuff using Restic. More on this one later. What does mega mean? This is a personal choice thing. Yes, it's all important, but gun to the head, what's really important given what you have at your disposal?