We all have our own backup solutions, some better than others, but the standard is the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy, which suggests having at least (3) copies of your data (not including the production data itself, with (2) of those copies being stored locally on different hard drives, and (1) copy stored somewhere offsite. Most of us datahoarders and homelabbers have some implementation of this rule in one form or another.
If you are just looking for the tutorial and want to skip through all of my personal backstory bullshit, just scroll on to the end, and don’t complain about it. This is a personal blog, not some Medium article. At the end, I will discuss how to set up incremental, versioned, block-level, encrypted backups to Google Drive on FreeNAS.
Note: the single caveat is that the unlimited storage is only free and unlimited for GSuites for Business accounts that have 5 or more users (otherwise, you will be paying normal Google Drive storage fees).
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