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I said truenas as it was the first to come to mind but it is probably overtly complex for my needs and openmediavault might be better, as far as I can use an open source software on whatever hardware I end up with I’m happy.

Yeah I want an external drive out of the house, but I feel like that is independent of my decision on how to store data at home. Am I wrong? Should I take that into consideration for choosing a nas at home?

Indeed, RAID1 is what I’d probably choose to have a safety net in case of hard drive failure. Something simple to start with.

So after all you just have a normal PC using arch with a handful of disks? So is some of the disks holding copies of the others? I’ll check btrfs, to see what kinda use it can provide.

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eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
HexOS is not cheap, but it’s a nice wrapper around TrueNAS. It supports a simple interface for just enough to cover most simple use cases. Then you can drop into TrueNAS if you want something more advanced.

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Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Yeah I want an external drive out of the house, but I feel like that is independent of my decision on how to store data at home. Am I wrong?

Yes 🙂

You’ll want offsite storage no matter what you build. This protects you from wiping your RAID array (RAID is not a backup), syncing the wrong data and losing files, etc.

And… imagine your NAS is gone. Make sure you know how to get your (encrypted) data back.

The first thing I did was backup a small chunk of files and then see that I could restore them to a different laptop.

Yep, I have Arch with a btrfs RAID array because - for me - ZFS was too needy. I can use standard tools to maintain btrfs.

It has SMB and NFS shares, powers up & down (when idle) automatically, and syncs our phones and laptops via syncthing (sync is also not a backup)

Everything is backed up to an online storage provider AND a HDD connected to a RasPi in a family members home (and I reciprocate some of their backups)

I do have Immich running natively on the NAS (no containers) because all our photos are there, so it made more sense to put it there, but all other functions (Home Assistant, etc) are on a separate device.

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