How do you handle backup?
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26278528
I'm running my media server with a 36tb raid5 array with 3 disks, so I do have some resilience to drives failing. But currently can only afford to loose a single drive at a time, which got me thinking about backups. Normally I'd just do a backup to my NAS, but that quickly gets ridiculous for me with the size of my library, which is significantly larger than my NAS storage of only a few tb. And buying cloud storage is much too expensive for my liking with these amounts of storage.Do you backup only the most valuable parts of your library?
adr1an
in reply to adr1an • • •some_guy
in reply to adr1an • • •Synology NAS
Edit: plus two SSD backups. I need to re-engage Backblaze for offsite.
thejoker954
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in reply to thejoker954 • • •thirteene
in reply to adr1an • • •d_ohlin
in reply to adr1an • • •Used to use rclone encrypted to gsuite, until that gravy train ran out lol.
Now I've got 3 Unraid boxes (2 on site, 3rd off) and a metric shitton of drives I've accumulated over the years.
Nogami
in reply to adr1an • • •Unraid checking in. 150TB ish. Dual parity for media files on XFS drives. Can lose 2 drives before array data is at risk, and even then if a drive fails, I’d only lose the data on that drive not the entire array.
Important data is on ab encrypted ZFS array which is snapshotted and replicated hourly to a separate backup server and replicated one more time weekly to 3.5” archive drives which are swapped out to a safe deposit box every few months.
I used to use rsync to do it but snapshot replication with sanoid/syncoid does the same thing in a tiny fraction of the time by just sending snapshot deltas rather than having to compare each file.
Giovanni Petri
in reply to adr1an • •@adr1an
an unholy ensemble of 4 external drives and 2 cloud storage providers managed with git annex
capacity: 3 TB + "pay as you go"
available: 1TB
used: 1.01TB
the drives were originally 5, then 1 failed and added the "pay as you go" s3 provider to pick up the slack
git annex handles redundancy and versioning, i configured it to keep 2 copies of every file across the 4 drives and the s3 provider, then i got 1tb of free onedrive space from my university and i'm in the process of making a full backup of everything in there
not really backup as much as redundant storage, but i think it's close enough
if anyone wants to roast my setup please do
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Nasado
in reply to Giovanni Petri • • •Giovanni Petri
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No, the external drives are 2tb in total, i was counting onedrive as well