cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26278528
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?
I only backup important stuff that I can’t replace, so photos and videos I’ve taken, documents, etc… So far about 1.5TB of space used by that.
Media and other stuff I downloaded online doesn’t get backed up, it’s not important and can be replaced.