Ask HN: What are your peronsal data backup and sync setups?

Yeah great question. With family members including not living with you. It's virtually impossible to backup from iPad/Phones to android phones and tablets and multitudes of PC's Linux to iOS to Wintel.

Eagerly awaiting answers from you all but for now...

  1. rsync from where I can.
  2. manually copy whenever I get the device in hand.
  3. backup cronjobs from omv server
  4. my main desktop use Timeshift
  5. LocalSend

Also trying to use Immich once I can get a stabilized build. Had to rescrape entire pic/vid family lib of 3TB multiple times.

Also cronjobs to attached USB and NAS to have backups of backups of backups.

No one seems to realize every household is a micro enterprise!

Then make matter worse, with all the tightening of security. It's harder and harder to remote into and recv/xfer files l.

I sync my devices to my Synology NAS at home, and then the NAS syncs them to Backblaze B2.

I have some extra workflows to back up some other data, like some WebDAV shares, based on rsync.

I just use Backblaze these days, now that I'm out of being a sysadmin.

Every week or so, I plug in an external SSD and put a tarball on it of the directory hierarchy in which I keep my most valuable data. If the tarball is significantly larger than previous one, I use du to try to find what caused the increase and move it out of the hierarchy.

rsync and btrfs snaphots internally, and restic for important backups synced to external storage. Cron for scheduling. Trading bits of NAS space with friends for geographic redundancy without needing to pay backblaze/etc.

The Backblaze cloud and restic.

syncthing from desktop and mobile to homelab. rsync from homelab to raspberry pi with a direct attached storage device at my parents.