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While reading many of the blogs and posts here about self hosting, I notice that self hosters spend a lot of time searching for and migrating between VPS or backup hosting. Being a cheapskate, I have a raspberry pi with a large disk attached and leave it at a relative's house. I'll rsync my backup drive to it nightly. The problem is when something happens, I have to walk them through a reboot or do troubleshooting over the phone or worse, wait until a holiday when we all meet.

What would a solution look like for a bunch of random tech nerds who happen to live near each other to cross host each other's offsite backups? How would you secure it, support it or make it resilient to bad actors? Do you think it could work? What are the drawbacks?

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[–] anzo@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Syncthing. Look no further, just check the "untrusted device" so that you don't give unencrypted data to your friend's disk.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Syncthing is not a backup tool and may very well destroy all your data on its own (though this is rare).

[–] anzo@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, fair point. Perhaps rclone.org then! :O

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 points 2 months ago

rclone or rsync is probably better but see my reply a few comments down (the very long one) about protocol aware cloning vs just cloning things at the file system

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