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How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have an HP pavillion 15-bc235nd that, quite frankly, I don´t really like that much (way too loud of a fan, cannot adjust the fan curve, keyboard and trackpad are terrible, etc).

I was planning to replace with laptop with something else, but in the meantime, I was thinking of something. Instead of getting this laptop in the landfill or give to someone else (no one needs an emergency laptop right now), I could potentially use this has a server machine to be used as an off site backup location.

Right now I am missing the off site backup part out of the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Since this laptop has more than enough horsepower to do the job, it could be a solution. But personally, I am not sure how reliable a laptop turned into a server can be. This laptop would be around 3000km away from me, so I have to be really sure it works at a distance without much problem.

For those who turned a laptop into a server: what is your mileage? Are there any specific considerations about this setup that a regular desktop/server does not have or specific issues?

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[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

If you can't access the hardware physically and you don't have someone on site who can work on it, just drop the idea and get a VPS or whatever cloud based. No matter what hardware you plan to use. Anything and everything can happen. Broken memory module, odd power surge, rodents or bugs messing up with the system, moisture or straight up water leak corroding something, fan failure overheating the thing and so on.

There's only one single fact on the business that I've learned over 20something years I've been working with IT: All hardware fails. No exceptions. The only question is 'when'. And when the time comes you need someone to have physical access to the stuff.

I mean, sure, your laptop might run just fine for several years without problems or it might have shipping damage over that 3000km and it'll break in a week. In either case, unless you have someone hands on the machine, it's not going to do much.