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How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I recognize this will vary depending on how much you self-host, so I'm curious about the range of experiences from the few self-hosted things to the many self-hosted things.

Also how might you compare it to other maintenance of your other online systems (e.g. personal computer/phone/etc.)?

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[–] webhead@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have weekly backups of my VMs in Proxmox. Fuck it lol.

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nightly backups to a repurposed qnap running pbs. I'm fully aware it's overkill but it gives me some peace of mind.

[–] webhead@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I opted weekly so I could store longer time periods. If I want to go a month back I just need 4 instead of 30. At least that was the main Idea. I've definitely realized I fucked something up weeks ago without noticing before lol.

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 2 years ago

I've got PBS setup to keep 7 daily backups and 4 weekly backups. I used to have it retaining multiple monthly backups but realized I never need those and since I sync my backups volume to B2 it was costing me $$.

What I need to do is shop around for a storage VM in the cloud that I could install PBS on. Then I could have more granular control over what's synced instead the current all-or-nothing approach. I just don't think I'm going to find something that comes in at B2 pricing and reliability.