I hope the author follows up with how they build out a backup system. No snark intended - it really does seem to me like an interesting set of articles especially for others who might be in a similar situation with keeping everything with one cloud provider.
I don't use AWS but I have a server on Linode and I realized that I am in the same situation should Linode go away, even though I tend to have a pretty rigorous backup routine elsewhere. It is something you can easily miss.
I am inspired now to dump my databases and rsync the content on a schedule.
Within Europe and if you're not at Hetzner already, Hetzner Storage Boxes[1] are very competitive. 4 Euros per month for a terabyte, throw borg[2] with compression + deduplication at it and it'll take you far. Especially if your databases are not changing that much, then borg can make that terabyte of storage a lot bigger.
Honestly it's pretty worrying, I don't understand how other people can talk about "you have to have multiple offsite backups" when each offsite runs about $700 per year for a relatively small amount of data. I can only afford one off-site backup, and if my local copy dies it'll take a couple of weeks for me to restore from AWS because of local internet speed limitations.
Offsite does not have to mean another cloud solution. If you have a copy of data on a thumbdrive or other external media, you can leave it at your parent's house (or other family member). You can keep a copy of it in a safety deposit box. If it's at a family member's house, it's just an excuse to visit on a semi-regular schedule as you swap out with an updated version.
Yep. My backups - personal ones, not business - live in three places:
1. A hard drive in a fire safe.
2. An S3 bucket, mediated by Wasabi.
3. My friend's server that lives at his house half a continent away.
It would be nice to have a fourth location that's a physical hard-drive that lives outside of my house, but close enough to drive to for pick-up, but it would mean either paying for a safety deposit box as you mentioned, or hassling a friend once a week as I come to pick it up and deposit it.
> My friend's server that lives at his house half a continent away.
I figure that if a disaster that takes out my house and someone across town at the same time, I probably won't be worrying about restoring data. Across continent would only be viable with a server like you mentioned essentially buddyCloud.
> I probably won't be worrying about restoring data
I urge you to reconsider this belief if you have the financial means. Life continues after natural disasters. I lived in a place that was devastated by a hurricane and many people's homes were destroyed. Those people still live and work today, and they still needed their files. They especially needed their insurance documents after the hurricane.
