[2bluesc]

I use a daily systemd timer on my home machine to remotely back-up the data on my VPS. From there, my home machine backs-up a handful of data from different places to a remote server.

Make sure you check the status of backups, I send journald and syslog stuff to papertrail[0] and have email alerts on failures.

I manually verify the back-ups at least once a year, typically on World Back-up Day [1]

[0] https://papertrailapp.com/ [1] http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/