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?

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    2 months ago

    Important clarification: snapshots only make backups faster if you do backups with zfs send, or with other filesystems they have the appropriate command too.