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How do you handle backup?

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?

Chadus_Maximus ,

I save the documents in a usb and format all my drives. Can’t have backup troubles if you never back anything up.

ChonkaLoo ,

I have a couple of external USB drives I bought on sale I backup my NAS to once a week. It’ll protect against drive failure at least. Almost got hit by ransomware a while back so I don’t keep anything on there without some backup.

DeltaTangoLima ,
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RAID5 and unlimited downloads on my 1Gbps fibre. All I backup is my library metadata itself, using a 2N+C strategy.

cmnybo ,

You can put a big hard drive in an external enclosure and use it for offline backups. There is no point in paying for cloud storage for something you can just download again if needed. Save the cloud storage for backing up non-replaceable data.

LiPoly ,

Personally, I back up everything on my NAS except my movie library, because that is something I can relatively easily restore by just downloading buying it again, and because it’s of course the biggest chunk of data. For the other data, I’m using a very affordable Hetzner server auction system with a lot of disks in a striped array. This gives me the maximum amount of storage, and given that I can just create the backup again should the stripe fail, I’m not worried about redundancy on the backup itself.

Azzu ,

I feel like other people seeding is enough backup for me. I don’t backup my library at all.

clmbmb ,

how about personal stuff, like photos or scanned documents?

praise_idleness ,

I use restic + Backblaze b2. Dirt cheap($6/tb/m). If you have more than a tb for personal photos and documents(provided that you are not some sort of big photography nerd), maybe it’s time for you to delete some things…

jabjoe ,
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Remote storage (Pi at parents house with a big disk) and cron’ed btrfs send over ssh.

hydrogen ,

“Cloud” storage is indeed more expensive. But depending where you live, you count the electricity cost in, and you use the storage ‘only’ for backups. Maybe it makes more sense to pay for remote storage in a datacenter. Check out Hetzner Storage Box, it’s what I use.

If it’s still too expensive, maybe ask a friend or family member (maybe someone that uses your media) to setup a nas at their home for backup purpose. (I use this for my media)

Make sure you encrypt your backups if you use a remote location for your backups.

You have to decide what’s valuable for you. For me my media is, I can just download everything again, but the time I put in to have every movie the correct subtitles without ads, the correct posters, metadata etc. I value my time, I don’t want to do it again if I loose everything.

JoMomma ,

Raid 5 is the worst raid, at least move to 6

Imprint9816 , (edited )

I admit this is not a helpful answer but…

If you want to have hundreds of gigabytes or more of media storage plus backups, its going to be expensive. There is no secret cheap way.

This is what makes debrid options so appealing. You can amass terabytes of media data for a cheap monthly cost.

You can then supplement that with a small nas or drive of rare or hard to find media / offline selection in which case you could probably run raid 10 with the small amount that you would actually need to backup.

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