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?
@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