Backup

To see how I arrived at this process, go to Designing my backup process

Data classification

I have to classify data to four categories:

absolute backup - backed up to a device in my apartment and device outside of my apartment
- this is data that is personal and if I loose it, it’s lost forever with no chance of retrieval
- pictures, personal documents
home backup - backed up to my nas
- this is convenience backup, movies, TV Series, books,
no backup
keychain - I need to have my keychain stored somewhere where I can access it even if I lose all devices (theft, disaster)

Nextcloud runs on [[My home lab]] (accessible only through Tailscale)
Every day, the server backs up the nextcloud folder with restic into NAS and hetzner storage box
Mac and Phone use nextcloud clients

When my server dies, I might loose access to my data until I get to my computer and recover from backup
Hetzner storage box always allows to delete files (when you have write access). If someone hacks my server, they can delete the backups.
- I have 10 weekly snapshots of the box that can’t be accessed using the server credentials. I can recover from snapshot if somebody deletes my backups.

My apartment burns down and I lost keychain or forgot the master password.
Somebody steals [[My home lab]] and my NAS and hetzner has critical data loss at the same time
My backups are corrupted and I can’t recover from them when [[My home lab]] dies.
Something happens to me and I won’t be paying for the Hetzner Storage Box