# Some confusions. Please help

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**Created:** [August 17, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/some-confusions-please-help/58335 "2019-08-17T12:29:12Z")\
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your questions are not direct related to nextcloud. availability and backup/restore is more a linux question.

if you are concerned about future grow of your data use a volume manager (lvm) instead of attaching hdds directly to your server. google lvm for further reading.

if you are concerned about disk failure. again use a volume manager and raid.

if you want to do backup one starting point would be:

[https://www.c-rieger.de/nextcloud-backup-and-restore/](https://www.c-rieger.de/nextcloud-backup-and-restore/)

or

> [@Nextcloud Backup and Restore](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-backup-and-restore/51589/6):
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> install restic as root sudo -i wget https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/download/v0.9.4/restic\_0.9.4\_linux\_amd64.bz2 bunzip2 restic\_0.9.4\_linux\_amd64.bz2 mv restic\_0.9.4\_linux\_amd64 /usr/local/bin/restic chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/restic mount the backup directory to /mnt/nc-backup set two environment variables export RESTIC\_REPOSITORY="/var/nc-backup" export RESTIC\_PASSWORD="oJSesetLzRgphy9UwmWxi50oE0dkYa16" initialize restic restic init create a backup script /usr/local/bin/backup\_…

restic can handle cloud storage as a backup target. so you write to aws s3, digitalocean spaces, backblaze, … (in combination with [https://rclone.org/](https://rclone.org/) your backup target get nearly infinite.) so your data are safe even if your home burns down. but 1tb cloud storage is not for free. 😉

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