Most people realize too late that they didn’t have backups of their data or don’t realize they can easily setup their own media servers at home. What do you use and suggest? Everything from beginner tech knowledge to advance. TIA

  • faultypidgeon
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    3 months ago

    My setup is simple:

    • Pictures: I don’t take many and rarely look at them tbh. So they just sit on my laptops NVMe
    • Music: I only ever use cmus for listening to music => Therefore music is also only locally on my laptop, managed with beets
    • Movies/Tv Shows: I have jellyfin running on a raspberry Pi 4. For single user use this works fine (even transcoding DVD quality works). For multi user or higher resolution transcoding this probably won’t work.
    • Backups: One off-site backup at a cloud storage provider using restic and one backup on a USB hdd I simply plug in every other week.

    My recommendation is: Keep it as simple as possible. In the past I created the craziest setups, but it turns out that in every day life I have neither the time nor motivation to maintain that shit.