When you self-host, you take responsibility for preserving your family history. Learn how to architect bulletproof 3-2-1 backup systems, automate client-side encryption, and rehearse recovery drills so you never fear hardware failure.
Designing local storage snapshots, external drive mirrors, and cloud cold vaults.
Setting up deduplicated, encrypted, incremental snapshots that run silently.
Comparing Backblaze B2, Wasabi, and AWS S3 Glacier for pennies per gigabyte.
Step-by-step procedures to recover from total hardware loss in less than an hour.
Ransomware doesn't just encrypt your files. It goes after your backups too. This guide shows you how to set up a safe backup plan for your home server in one weekend: three copies of your data, one locked offsite copy that attackers can't touch, and restore tests so you know it works. Expect to spend about $7 per terabyte per month.
