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Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome? (lemy.lol)

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Not exactly self hosting but maintaining/backing it up is hard for me. So many “what if”s are coming to my mind. Like what if DB gets corrupted? What if the device breaks? If on cloud provider, what if they decide to remove the server?

I need a local server and a remote one that are synced to confidentially self-host things and setting this up is a hassle I don’t want to take.

So my question is how safe is your setup? Are you still enthusiastic with it?

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[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yeah. It is kinda hard.

Backups. First and foremost.

Now once that is sorted, what if your DB gets corrupted. You test your backups

Learn how to verify and restore

It is a hassle. That’s why there is a constant back and forth between on prem and cloud in the enterprise

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

I think "hard" is the wrong word. After all, it's just a matter of mashing the right combination of buttons on your keyboard. It's complicated...

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 4 months ago

Nothing proves a backup like forcing yourself to simulate a recovery! I like to make one setting change, then make a backup, and then delete everything and try to rebuild it from scratch to see if I can do it and prove the setting change is still there

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

We do a quarterly test.

I have the DB guy make a change, I nuke it and ensure I can restore it.

For us. I don’t work for Veeam, while I don’t like their licensing. Veeam is pretty good

Hth

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