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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by teddyh on Friday February 18, 2022 @04:01AM (#30383576)
You seem to conflate backups with off-site backups, and concluding that off-site backups are hard. However, nothing in this story would require off-site backups. A separate backup server on-site would have been fine here.

Of course, off-site backups are good, but would not have been actually needed in this case.

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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by christophilus on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:13AM (#30384753)
Was going to say the same. Anyway, off-site backups aren’t that expensive, if you go with Backblaze or Wasabi. $5/TB/mo.
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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by jewel on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:04PM (#30388231)
If you have a lot of data then a cheaper choice would be to put a raspberry pi at your mom's house, add a few external drives, forward a port, and send backups with restic.
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