cross-posted from: https://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?

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I only backup important stuff that I can’t replace, so photos and videos I’ve taken, documents, etc… So far about 1.5TB of space used by that.

    Media and other stuff I downloaded online doesn’t get backed up, it’s not important and can be replaced.

  • leviticoh@poliverso.org
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    3 months ago

    @anzo

    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

      • leviticoh@poliverso.org
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        1 month ago

        @christophski
        i prefer not to recommend specific storage providers, as i can’t ensure they’ll keep being good in the future and won’t suddenly fail taking all data with them.

        Still, like other data hoarders probably already told you, ensure that a single provider doesn’t hold the only copy of your data and that the files you put on them are encrypted, so that weirdos don’t go snooping in your privates.

        I’d also advise choosing providers that support standard protocols like s3, sftp, webdav or similar, so that you can use an external tool to manage your data and migrate more easily in case you need to switch.

        now, it always depends exactly what you need it for, i was talking about keeping personal files i care about in the cloud, you could need something different for another purpose, but it would get too long for a comment on lemmy