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> where do you store and backup your personal data
A RAID array of physical drives in a local PC.
> How do you run your backups?
rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/) driven from cron.
> How do you manage encryption keys, etc?
Stored in files on plural disks plus a printed to paper backup.
> What considerations drove your solution?
Must be 100% under my control -- "someone else's disks" must not ever be the primary backup medium.
I store everything on my laptop, full disk encryption.
My phone is synced to my laptop via Syncthing so I have a copy of everything.
Passwords in keepass, Syncthinged.
I back everythinhg up every month or two on a USB drive using ansible by creating a big gpg encrypted archive. The process is automated for both archiving and restoring; had to use restore I think 3 times in the past.
Code here: https://gitlab.com/sdwolfz/dotfiles follow the rabbit hole from `make backup`.
This works for me as I don't keep around things I don't need. Every once in a while I look around and delete things that have no use for me, and reorganise information. Especially pictures!
I don't trust any "cloud backups" as security for me has 2 important sides: 1. Phisical access. And 2. Encryption strength. Sacrificing point 1 for convenience is unthinkable to me as that is the most important part I consider.
My most important Docker container volumes are backed up to my Dropbox account via rclone and docker-volume-backup[0] - my Documents folders are also mirrored to Dropbox.
[0]: https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup