[kwlug-disc] Local IT folks who have experience setting up nextcloud or equivalent ?

[Federer Fanatic]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 at 16:54, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:41 PM Federer Fanatic <nafdef at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I run Ubuntu mostly and currently use crashplan, I would like to have
>> my own
>> server setup using an opensource solution. I would be willing to pay for
>> someone
>> who has extensive experience in a home setup. Everything has to be open
>> configuration, i.e.,
>> you need to show me what you did :-)
>>
>
> If you already run Ubuntu, then I assume you want to replace crashplan
> with a local
> backup solution? Or are there additional features you need for NextCloud
> (other than
> backup).
>

Yes. Local, I suppose away from my residence, failing that in my house in a
location that is securely locked up and "secret"
so that a thief (highly unlikely) would breakin my house. That is I suppose
is the benefit of offsite backup. My current data
resides on a ZFS partition of two identical hard disks. And I have snap
shots and use
the perl script that manages the config file.

>
> Assuming you only need backup:
>
> Backup can simply be an external disk, over a USB3 connection, or a
> hotplug SATA
> or e-SATA. There are many programs that can do it, but I prefer an
> incremental
> backup scheme. That means that you do a full image every week or month,
> then
> in between the full backups, you do delta backups (things that changed
> only).
>
> The tool I use is dump, which works for ext filesystems.
>
> https://linux.die.net/man/8/dump
>
> Full backup, assuming it is mounted at /mnt/extdisk
>
> /sbin/dump -h 0 -b 64 -0 -u -z -f /mnt/extdisk/backup-yymmdd.dump /
>
> Daily backup
> DOM=`date +%a`
> /sbin/dump -h 0 -b 64 -1 -u -z -f /mnt/extdisk/backup-$DOM.dump /
>
> Then you rotate the disk outside the house, e.g. keep it at a friend or at
> your
> workplace.
>
> There are other solutions, such as rsync, zfs tricks, ...etc.
> As long as you have a backup physically outside your home, you are good,
> even
> if it is a month out of date. Better than nothing if your computer is
> stolen (yes,
> that happened to me a couple of decades ago, and I had a tape that saved
> my data).
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