Get a tiny ITX box with a couple 20TB refurbished HDDs, stick it at a friend’s house
Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?
doodledup@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m just skipping that. How am I going to backup 48TB on an off-site backup?!
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 days ago
doodledup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In theory. But I already sold my pension for those 64TB drives (raidz2) xD. Getting offsite backup for all of that feels like such a waste of money (until you regret it).
Cyber@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Just a friendly reminder that RAID is not a backup…
Just consider if something accidentally overwrites some / all your files. This is a perfectly legit action and the checksums will happily match that new data, but your file(s) are gone…
doodledup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s why I stated that I know it’s not a backup. I do weekly snapshots though and I’m very diligent on my smart tests and scrubs. I also have a UPS and a lot of power surge protection. It’s as safe as it gets. But having a backup would definitely be better, you’re right. I just can’t afford it for this much storage.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s a great use-case for snapshots! RAID still isn’t a backup, but it can be quite robust.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Do you have to back up everything off site?
Maybe there are just a few critical files you need a disaster recovery plan for, and the rest is just covered by your raidz
doodledup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I do backup like 1TB off-site. But it would still be a major blow if I lost the rest of it. I just try to live with that risk I’m fully aware exists.
cwista@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The cost of storage is always more than double the sticker price. The hidden fee is that you need a second and maybe a third one and a system to put it all in. Most our operational lab cost is backups. I can’t replace the data if it’s lost.
jimerson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Understanding the risks is half the battle, but we can only do what we can do.
Censed@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
You ought to only be 3-2-1ing you irreplaceable/essential files like personal photos, videos, and documents. Unless you’re a huge photography guy i can believe that takes up 48TB
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Only back up the essentials like photos and documents or rare media.
Don’t care about stuff like Avengers 4K that can easily be reaquired
dave@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
a “poor mans” backup can be useful for things like this, movie/tv/music collections, and will only be a few MB instead of TB.
if things go south at least you can rebuild your collection in time. obviously if there are some rare files that were hard to get then you can backup those ones up, but even at that it will probably still be a small backup
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yup. My “essential” backups are well under 1TB, the rest can be reacquired.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
This is what I’m currently doing, I use backblaze b2 for basically everything that’s not movies/shows/music/roms.
My next plan is to get a big ass external HDD that I’ll update once a month and keep in my storage unit. Cloud storage gets pricy past the first couple TB.
doodledup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t have Avengers 4K. It’s all just Linux ISOs.