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Since I got my docker environment setup and functional, I'm now thinking about backups. I'd like do a cloud backup of my docker volumes at the very least, if not the images and/or the config files. Any advice on cloud providers?

Volume backups would be about 20-30 GB in total.

These are two I found via a quick search: One drive is $99.99 a year for 1 TB. Jottacloud is $69.99 a year for 1 TB

Dropbox is out as it's too expensive. I like the price of Jottacloud but I've never used it before.

How do you handle backups? Would cloud be a waste?

Since I got my docker environment setup and functional, I'm now thinking about backups. I'd like do a cloud backup of my docker volumes at the very least, if not the images and/or the config files. Any advice on cloud providers? Volume backups would be about 20-30 GB in total. These are two I found via a quick search: One drive is $99.99 a year for 1 TB. Jottacloud is $69.99 a year for 1 TB Dropbox is out as it's too expensive. I like the price of Jottacloud but I've never used it before. How do you handle backups? Would cloud be a waste?

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I use my trusty orange Verbatim 3.5" diskette that I've used daily since 1993. I backup the important files on it: autoexec.bat, config.sys, win.ini, system.ini and of course command.com. It gives me trouble from time to time so I just stick it to the fridge for an hour or so with the big magnet I recovered from my last hard drive that failed which is why I do daily backups now.

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Rent yourself a Linux storage vps, it’s much cheaper and you are in control.

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Any vendor suggestions? I know of linode but I've haven't looked at their pricing. I don't need any compute, just storage.

Maybe I could talk one of my friends into letting me plug in a low power mini computer at their house and replicate to that somehow.

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There are plenty of cheap solutions, but depending on what you want to backup, you might wanna check their ToS/Guidelines.

Check this out (they also propose VPS and storage solutions with free speech in mind).

https://poal.co/s/Privacy/726144

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mirrored RAID, and a Corsair Survivor.

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Do you do any off-site backup? I have plenty of drive enclosures I could use to back up onsite but that just feels like an extra step if I then replicate it off-site.

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I have as much faith in cloud backups as I do the government. The data I have backed up does not leave It's air-gaped system, so an offsite backup is not viable.

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It sounds like you have a known amount you need to store. mega.nz might be what you're looking for. I use it to store some stuff I need to be able to access from anywhere.