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by EnKopVand 1304 days ago
> in my shed so it is off-site.

My neighbour had a lightning strike hit their robot grass mower. It fried every electronic device on their parcel. Including half the non-connected power tools in their non-house-connected shed. It was a wild thing to witness the aftermath of. Basically anything electric that had been semi-close to the robot grass mower "stop here" line circling the grass, got fried. The plastic of on none-electric tool literally melted. Nobody got hurt, thankfully.

Your shed may be on another planet for all I know, but the amount of damage caused sure made me respect the "two separate physical locations" more than I used to.

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That is a good story. My shed is in the corner of the yard. I physically walk my backup drive back and forth once a week and keep it in a box unconnected to any electrical. Call me a cheapskate, but I don't mind.
Yeah I bought some cheap server with storage off OVH and keep a syncthing instance there (with archiving enabled) + some backups just for that reason.

I kinda thought about also getting a solar/battery backed small server that was connected via WiFi for backup for galvanic isolation (for case when it hits nearby power pole and not building directly) but eh, would need to be in noticeable distance from everything else to make sense