I’ve been meaning to write this post but I’ve been too lazy until now:

I’m sure none of you have used Proxmox before but I found this useful since I didn’t want to run and had no interest in deploying an email server nor a public one that datamines like Gmail or Outlook’s

I get notified if a VM image backup’s integrity isn’t verified since I don’t want to be screwed if in the event that I need to recover from a disaster like a failed hard drive/SSD, filesystem corruption (Though, I’m using ext4 for Lemmy’s VM so that’s exceedingly rare)

I’ve also got a crontab setup that rsyncs the backup images to an SSD from the backup drive then pushes it off-site to @Disabled@burggit.moe 's server so we have a full 3 2 1 backup implemented.

Down the line if we expand more and need more storage, I’m going to ideally want a RAID of sorts. Just so we’ll have more fault tolerance, though that’ll be expensive. :x

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    1 year ago

    Backing up volume mounts was what I originally did, though this was before I was aware of proxmox nor had the proper hardware to do a lot of VMs. So I was using docker on bare metal on Ubuntu server.

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      1 year ago

      Ah i feel you. I really like just encrypting all volume data (mounted to local folder), shipping it to diff drive, then uploading it to “cloud” as another back up. So far reliable, but i am sure not best solution. One thing is for sure tho, its easiest autobackup i can think of haha