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how much backing up would you do of a media server? (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a nas with 2x10tb drives. I mostly just have music, movies and tv shows on it.

People talk about raid not being a backup, but is that relevant for non-original data? I mean I can always get the media again if need be. It would just be an inconvenience.

What would you do?

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm probably an outlier, but I have a full 3-2-1 backup. Over 100Tb myself, with it all backed up. I have a safe off-site I back everything up to weekly and then annually I do a full backup to LTO tapes.

I lost my media once. I don't want to go through that again.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow!

Given your previous experience, your approach is understandable.

I have an old raid setup on which the card died, and Crashplan deleted my Backups when the array went offline (yea, I was pissed)l.

One of these days I'll find a card on ebay, recover everything, and back it up again.

If I'd had a second backup...

[–] Stowaway@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure something like 10 years ago crashplan deleted a bunch of customer data in a deduplication job gone wrong.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So you have 3 100TB arrays?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

2 arrays, then the tapes. Primary has double parity, backup has single

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What’s the cost on the drives and tapes? (Roughly)

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tapes aren't bad, I can get few dozen TB off eBay for a couple hundred. Drive was crazy though. Dropped 2 grand on it and it still isn't that good of a drive.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oof.

Yeah, last time I looked the drives are stupid money (I feel like the should be much cheaper).