What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data? - eviltoast

What storage software could I run to have an archive of my personal files (a couple TB of photos) that doesn’t require I keep a full local copy of all the data? I like the idea of a simple and focused tool like Syncthing, but they seem to be angling towards replication.

Is the simple choice to run some S3-like backend and use CLI or other client to append and browse files? I’d love something with fault tolerance that someone can gradually add disks to. If ceph were either less complicated or used less resources I’d want to do that.

    • jkrtn@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 months ago

      That’s top of my list for moving the files if I do an S3 or WebDAV backend. I’m overthinking this, aren’t I? Just find a WebDAV server, set it up, use rclone to append files and pretty much everything else will be able to browse.

      • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        Haha it’s easy to overthink things sometimes. I’m guilty of that. I’m using SFTPGo at home to serve files from a small server.