Hey, folks!
So, the card linked to my hetzner account expired, and while I updated it everywhere else, the hetzner info fell through the cracks. They deleted my storageshare server, and erased everything, because I'm a fool, and didn't have their emails going to an account I ever check. I've spent the last several days feeling like I'd had a digital housefire. Things kept popping into my head, photos I had taken 10 years ago, or early drafts of the novel I'm writing... It's been pretty fucking depressing.
But, tonight, I fired up a laptop I haven't used in a while to find that most of what was in nextcloud was backed up on it. It's not everything, but it's the bulk of it.
I'd like for this to never happen again. I'm wondering if there's a complete idiot's guide to self hosting nextcloud? When I say I know nothing about this, please believe me. We're talking starting from scratch. I've never self hosted anything, and I have no idea where to begin. I'm on fedora silverblue, but just because I'm using linux doesn't mean I know anything. It just means I'm cheap. Haha. All I know is that I never want to go through that feeling of complete loss again. I'll make sure that whatever I do, it'll be backed up in two locations at least. I was paying for the family plan, and my brother, his wife, my mom, and a friend lost access to their stuff, too. So far as I know, there isn't a back up of their stuff. I really messed up here.
Any help is really appreciated, thanks in advance!
If your main motivation is never going through that kind of digital loss, please please please do yourself a favor and do not rely solely on a local solution. If there's a fire in your apartment, the best nextcloud setup isn't going to do shit for you. Look up the 3-2-1 rule if you want to be safe.
Exactly!
And if your budget is constrained, pick offsite backups over RAID, because RAID isn't a backup. Offsite can be as simple as a drive you leave at work and resync a couple times/year, or a service you pay for monthly. In either case, regularly check that the data is good (e.g. for hosted services, ensure payments are still being processed).