> I'd love to see some kind of system where I could partner up with other Umbrel users for backups/the ability to restore connectivity. If I knew that in an emergency, I could call my friend in town or my brother out of state and there was some procedure that would allow me to connect to an encrypted backup of what I'm needing, I would feel a lot better about taking responsibility for my own system.
I'm working on self-hosting my own "personal cloud" (NextCloud with a few other services), and I strongly debated just getting an Umbrel, but this is what kept me from doing so. Instead, I'm going the DIY route with two machines, one in my house and one at my parents', and we're each going to have data replicated across both machines and encrypted at rest.
If Umbrel offered this out of the box, I would probably just use that to save me the time.
Doing this for the last 7 years, too. One server at my parents, one at my home. Connected via IPSEC. I just migrated to ZFS on my offsite backup, too - this is just perfect with syncoid/sanoid atomatic backups and zfs-pull of dataset. Fine grained security but robust at the same time. It is the first time I feel reasonable safe regarding the "worst" that can happen.
We are about 120km apart, different electricity providers. If an area this size looses energy for a considerable time, data is probably my least problem.
If it's just two computers doing mutual backups, then having both stop temporarily due to a power outage isn't a big deal: All the data's still there, at rest, and being unable to access the backup server isn't a problem since you have nothing to make/send new data with anyway.
I'm working on self-hosting my own "personal cloud" (NextCloud with a few other services), and I strongly debated just getting an Umbrel, but this is what kept me from doing so. Instead, I'm going the DIY route with two machines, one in my house and one at my parents', and we're each going to have data replicated across both machines and encrypted at rest.
If Umbrel offered this out of the box, I would probably just use that to save me the time.