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How do you guys back up your server?
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3-2-1
Three copies. The data on your server.
Buy a giant external drive and back up to that.
Off site. Backblaze is very nice
How to get your data around? Free file sync is nice.
Veeeam community version may help you too
I'm not sure how you understand the 3-2-1 rule given how you explained it, even though you're stating the right stuff (I'm confused about your numbered list..) so just for reference for people reading that, it means that your backups need to be on:
Huh. I always heard 3 copies, 2 locations, 1 of the locations offsite. Yours makes sense though.