Multi-Household 3-2-1 Backup Solution

[Mawson]

My wife and I live in the big city, and my folks (+2 of my siblings) live about 400 miles away.
We all need a backup solution, so I'm building a pair of servers that will work as a team to give my whole family a solid data integrity plan, plus possibly some media and game server hosting and such.

Overview:

• One server at each location.
• Servers will accept backups, files, etc from users devices
• Each local server will send copies of the local users' backups to the server in the alternate location.
• Each server may also be able to act as a media server as well, resources depending

The Hardware:

• "Rincewind" - My local server
  • Random-butt rack case from back when George W. Was in office.
  • SilverStone 3x 5.25" ODD to 5x 3.5" HDD cage (SST-FS305-12G)
  • 120 GB Kingston boot SSD
  • 5x random 2TB HDDs
    • (These need replaced before full deployment. Need at least 24TB usable to match the other server)
  • Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA
  • Supermicro X9scm-f LGA1155 server motherboard with IPMI
  • Xeon E3-1240
  • 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz un-buffered ECC RAM
    • (Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment)
       
• "TheLibrarian" - Remote server at the parent's house.
  • Used Nanoxia Deep Silence 3 (iirc)
  • 8x random 4TB HDDs that came with the case
  • Crucial boot SSD
  • Fujitsu 9211-8i HBA
  • Supermicro X10SSL-F LGA1150 server motherboard with IPMI
  • Xeon E3-1246 v3
  • 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600Mhz unbuffered ECC RAM
    • (Will upgrade to 32GB before full deployment)
       

Status and Next Steps:

• Add SSDs for cache once feature is available
• Upgrade both servers to 23GB of ram
• Continue to test HexOS config before dployment
  • Wait for Buddy Backup feature to be available for testing.
  • Continue playing with plex, immich, etc.
• Find a dead nuts simple incremental backup solution for Windows
• Deploy Servers and set up local machine backups

 

If anyone has any suggestions for windows backup software I would love to hear them!

Attached photos show my current tech cave/homelab setup

 

[Sparkrdom]

Backrest caught my eye recently - leveraging Restic

https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

[Mawson]

I'm really Git Hub dumb... is that project a backup tool?

[Sparkrdom]

Yes. It's a WebUI wrapper and orchestrator for Restic.

https://restic.net/

Edited November 30, 2024 by Sparkrdom

[Mawson]

Interesting... I'll look into it!

[Diltz09]

They plan on having a secure buddy backup system so you and a buddy can each have off site backup for eachother

[Sparkrdom]

15 hours ago, Diltz09 said:

They plan on having a secure buddy backup system so you and a buddy can each have off site backup for eachother

He mentions Buddy Backup in the post already.

[Mawson]

17 hours ago, Diltz09 said:

They plan on having a secure buddy backup system so you and a buddy can each have off site backup for eachother

And I'm very much looking forward to it! I've been waiting for HexOS since the day I first heard about it on WAN over 2 years ago. I actually had some of this hardware then, and was trying to get TrueNAS working LOL