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Get yourself a Xeon powered workstation that supports at least 4 drives. One will be your boot system drive and three or more will be a ZFS mirror. You will use ECC RAM (hence Xeon). I bought a Lenovo workstation like this for $35 on eBay.

ZFS with a three way mirror will be incredibly unlikely to fail. You only need one drive for your data to survive.

Then get a second setup exactly like this for your backup server. I use rsnapshot for that.

For your third copy you can use S3 like a block device, which means you can use an encrypted file system. Use FreeBSD for your base OS.



For am4 it is pretty easy to get things working with ecc udimms. I have a 5900x with 32gb of ddr4 ecc ram ticking in my basement.




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