GoKawiilCreating backup storage sucks
Personal storage
Creating storage and syncing it is one of those activities where something is always off, doesn't work like you want, and is not working at the time when you need it. So I decided I wanted to fix it to the extent I could for my machines.
In the last few months I have learned a lot of useful Linux things that I hoped would help me sync appropriately all useful files across my devices. In particular, I wanted to use this knwoledge to be able to do this completely for free. I had no interest in giving any more money to any provider to just be able to see my own files. The same files I created and owned. I had done this mistake with Google One storage once and was not willing to make it again.
I was familiar with the standard 3-2-1 backup technique, but I had never quite tried to implement it or really thought hard about it. So this was the time.
For those that are not familiar, 3-2-1 backup means storage should be in: THREE copies, on TWO different storage media, with ONE copy offsite.
What that meant for me was:
A working layer A hard drive Some cloud provider
This post will go in detail on the choices I made for each of these layers. I will preface that I might have made many mistakes, and only mean to share this as my personal journey to it and in no way something to emulate (not that anyone would).
My layers
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