January 16, 2026, 6:20am 1
I have been looking for a backup setup for my Raspberry Pi which is hosting Seafile (and a few more services in the future). I discovered the 3-2-1 Backup method.
How can a person securely, effectively save a copy of data off-site without trusting cloud providers? If this is impossible or too inconvenient, what cloud providers are recommended for backing up?
Currently all my data is stored locally on an NVME drive. I am considering buying a HDD for backup. That would violate the 3-2-1 strategy though because I would have
- two copies of data on the NVME (main drive), a copy of data on the HDD – this meets the 3 requirement
- two devices (NVME and HDD) – meets the 2 requirement
- but it is …
January 16, 2026, 6:20am 1
I have been looking for a backup setup for my Raspberry Pi which is hosting Seafile (and a few more services in the future). I discovered the 3-2-1 Backup method.
How can a person securely, effectively save a copy of data off-site without trusting cloud providers? If this is impossible or too inconvenient, what cloud providers are recommended for backing up?
Currently all my data is stored locally on an NVME drive. I am considering buying a HDD for backup. That would violate the 3-2-1 strategy though because I would have
- two copies of data on the NVME (main drive), a copy of data on the HDD – this meets the 3 requirement
- two devices (NVME and HDD) – meets the 2 requirement
- but it is not off-site