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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Opinions on backup plan & hardware. (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First off, here’s what I have to backup:

-2x MacBook Pros with 2 & 4 TB SSDs

-Desktop with a 1TB SSD and a 2TB HDD

-HTPC / media server with a 1TB SSD and (for now) 6TB storage drive

I’m trying to do a 3-2-1 with personal data so the documents and photos will have a cloud backup. A second copy locally on a different machine seems sufficient for everything else.

Would two drives in raid 0 to mirror the other drives be a reasonable? I don’t think I’ll exceed 12 TB on the media server anytime soon so I could do 2x12TB in a NAS or build one up from old hardware.

Appreciate any recommendations for/against this or specific NAS enclosures that would be well suited to the application. I don’t want to waste the power using an old desktop, but I don’t want to spend $400 on a NAS that when I have the parts.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes thats a reasonable plan, I would not buy anything recondition and for cloud, i’d look at idrive