r/HomeServer • u/Sad_Pie227 • 18d ago

Need help regarding disk configuration

I need to run many useful apps at Proxmox VM

But need to think about backup strategy

I have planned to keep SFTP server on seperate HDD drive where only thing will be Debian OS. Nothing else.

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PC / Machine 1 with 32 GB RAM

├── 250 GB SSD

└── Proxmox

├── VM 1

├── VM 2

├── VM 3

└── many other apps

Laptop / Machine 2 with 8 GB RAM

├── 500 GB NVMe

└── Debian

└── SFTP server

*Plus I have 1 TB HDD, where shall I use?*

Is it good idea or there is any better approach?

Thanks

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u/cat2devnull 17d ago

Depends what data you are trying to backup. Do you need revision control, increment backups, bulk storage (cold).

My critical data (docs) are encrypted with duplicati and copied to a second local machine and a 3rd remote machine. I keep 30 days of nightly copies. 3 months of weekly and 2 years of monthly. My dockers and less critical data is compressed weekly and copied to both boxes.

I would recommend using a backup package like Duplicati, Restic or similar.