That is a very good question, it makes me think of better organization for my data. Data such as task lists, and daily notes aren’t necessarily very important, while family photos and documents would be more important.
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SheeEttin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How life-or-death critical would it be if you lost one of those files?
Resilient filesystems/raid/multiple backup points should be more than enough.
mouse@midwest.social 10 months ago
SeriousBug@infosec.pub 10 months ago
For any family photos and documents you can’t afford to lose, make sure you have backups of it. A RAID array does not mean you don’t need backups: you want at least 3 copies, at least one offsite.
The copy in your RAID array is one copy. You can back that up to an external hard drive or something as a second copy. Then have an offsite backup on something like Backblaze as your third copy.
mouse@midwest.social 10 months ago
Thanks for the reassurance. What I currently have is exactly that, RAID for the local data, and a spare drive that is mounted and unmount when data is backed up, and that is rsynced offsite to a cloud provider. I figured that my current setup was really reliable as I had slowly been researching and working on this over a few years.
I have a sort of itch to play with a mini PC, I guess it would be best not to hurt any of my important data by downgrading the setup, however this is a good time to really sort and figure out what I need and is important and what isn’t as important and can be reobtained if something fails on the mini PC.
thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Save yourself a headache and use btrfs/zfs with periodically checks as suggested in another post.
Who cares if it is a problem or not when it has a simple and inexpensive solution.
mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
A word of caution on relying on backups without the other types of error prevention: If it takes you a while to notice that bitrot has ruined a file, then it may have already propagated through your backups. The only type of backups that would account for this is archival backups, such as on tape or quality bluray discs.
mouse@midwest.social 10 months ago
Yeah, that’s kind of what I expected and I am now thinking of keeping my setup how it is currently and getting a mini PC for less important data and services to tinker with.