For now my server doesn’t have very important data most of it are your “Linux isos” I can just download again and I’m thinking of starting to move my file and photos to the server but in afraid. What if I get a ransomwarei don’t realize and all my backups get encrypted too? Or if the backups are corrupted and my disks breaks? But also I’m afraid about cloud because I’ve seen some posts about people getting their google accounts closed without notice for breaking TOS (maybe they did something wrong maybe not).
I’m sorry for your loss. Thats the type of scenario I fear about, I can have the 321 backup but errors happen like not configuring you backup correctly, or destroying the raid… also I dont have a lot of money to buy drives and most of them are refurbished and I dont know if I can trust them.
The thing is, these sorts of losses aren’t limited to selfhosting. Selfhosting introduces some new risks and reduces some other risks.
Digital data is inherently fragile. It takes active work to preserve it.
That’s one of the reasons my wife and I make an actual physical photo book each year of our favourite photos.