How do you backup important things you store in selfhosted clouds?
I’m currently thinking about hosting Ente myself for syncing all my pictures. Maybe also spinning up nextcloud for various other shared files. However, for me one main benefit of using services like iCloud is the mitigated risk of losing everything in case the hardware fails (and fire, theft, water-damages, …).
Do you keep regular updates on hosted services? Do you keep really important stuff on other providers? Do you have other failsafes?
When I setup my backup strategy, the Hetzner storage boxes showed the best price per TB, and allow ssh / SCP and webdav access.
I run a virtualized TrueNAS Scale with a passed through HBA and about 6 drives in raid-z2 mode. I setup TrueNAS to do regular snapshots - hourly, daily, monthly and I use the built in encrypted backup options to backup my most important data every night (personal videos and pictures, VM backups, documents, docker volumes).
This works like a charm and it seems to be also quite stable. If the system ever dies, I can always simply mount the encrypted backup folder on my laptop using rclone, and then manage my files directly using mc.