Comment on Am I corrupting my data?
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I would probably shy away from passing the raw disk. There are a few dozen ways to skin that, But in the end I would probably just mount the disc through NFS,smb, whatever it takes. Reading that smart data is paramount for your situation. You could have a bad cable and never know it.
You could run a couple of VMs K8S and longhorn the data, It’s capable of backing up to an S3 compliant storage.
For my home stuff at the moment I’m running unraid with a BTRFS and a parity disc. The first every month I run a scrub if I had any corruption it would find it for me and alert me. It’s slow as balls but more protection is better than less. You can also buy some recycled discs and keep a offline store. I don’t love the recycled discs but for backup purposes that aren’t running 24x7 they’re better than nothing.
thelemonalex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The problem is that I’ve never worked with Kubernetes, and it wouldn’t allow me to port over my current docker instances, afaik. And I’m not ready to pay for Unraid, I’m sorry, I need to set up the server as frugally as possible. Still, thank you for the info, I’ll keep it in mind, while I decide how to move forward.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The chances of corruption from passing virtualized disks in truenas is lower than passing raw disks. I’d move them to virtualized disks.
As far as your SMART data, make a ventoy+debian live usb, boot your host off that and install smartmontools and use smartctl to read your SMART data. You host should still have access to that data. If you have smart errors, you’ll need to fix those first.