A comprehensive breakdown of my homelab backup architecture, built around the “3-2-1” principle. The strategy utilizes TrueNAS as the central hub, employing ZFS snapshots for immediate disaster recovery, Rsync to a secondary PC for local hardware redundancy, and Proxmox Backup Server for managing VM/LXC backups. Finally, all critical datasets and backups are automatically synced offsite to Storj, ensuring the entire network is well protected against failure
Your Backups Need a Backup: Syncing PBS to Storj for Offsite Peace of Mind
A guide to implementing offsite homelab backups by syncing a local Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) directly to Storj’s decentralized S3-compatible cloud storage. Taking advantage of PBS’s native S3 support and Storj’s free egress, the author explains how to configure S3 endpoints with path-style access, create a remote datastore, and set up a pull-based sync job to automatically upload deduplicated and doubly-encrypted backups every night.

