Hello!! Some recent technical problems on my family’s NAS gave me a big scare and finally pushed me to figure out a way to back it all up. I’m asking here specifically because I really don’t know where to even starts because of the fact I’ve got just under 50 terabytes worth of data stored in a 7-disk RAID-5 and would prefer to keep it cheap. What are your suggestions?

Edit: thank you for all the suggestions, I’ll probably be considering using Backblaze for backups, or perhaps seeing if I can scrounge up old unused disks from people I know. Thank you all again <3

  • morto@piefed.social
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    17 天前

    But… can we trust that we will have stuff available on the internet in the future?

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      17 天前

      All my TV shows and movies, I don’t bother. But my 150gb mp3 library I keep backed up because it’s much smaller and I know some of that stuff is not readily available online.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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      17 天前

      Exactly. Regimes want to kill this as fast as they can to milk us of every penny witghr their shitty services. I dont trust any sites will stay up.

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      17 天前

      You can replicate across more than one provider and do automated regular monitoring that backups are still accessible.

      If one goes down you hopefully have time to figure out a replacment before the other(s) do.

      Probably not worth it for a bunch of xvid dvdrips or historical archives of full system-level backups but for critical data it’s sensible.