Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?

• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you can’t remember what you lost, did you really need it to begin with?

  Unless it’s personal memories of course.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t remember the name of an excel spreadsheet I created years ago, which has continually matured with lots of changes. I often have to search for it off the many I have for different purposes.

    Trusting your memory is a naive, amateur approach.

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The key here being that you actually remember the file exists, because it’s important. Some other random spreadsheet you don’t even remember exists because you haven’t needed it since forever is probably not all that important to backup.

      If you loose something without ever realizing you lost it, it was not important so there would be no reason to make a backup.

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If the spreadsheet is important it sounds like it would be part of the 4 GB that was backed up.

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    • three@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Psst, you missed the point and need to re-read the thread.

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So you do remember that you have several frequently-used spreadsheets.

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    • cenzorrll@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You put that with everything else similar into a folder, which is backed up. Mine is called “Files”. If there’s something in there that I don’t need backed up. It still gets backed up. If there’s something very large in there that I don’t need backed up, it gets removed in one of my “oh shit these backups are huge” purges.

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  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For me, I have a bad memory. I might remember a childhood movie (a nickname I give to special Linux ISOs) that I hadn’t even thought of for 10 years and track down a copy, sometimes excavating obscure sources, and that may be hours of one-time inspiration and work repeated many times over. Having a complete list is a good helper, but a full backup of course is best.

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• kurotora@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In my case, for Linux ISOs, is only needed to login in my usual private trackers and re-download my leeched torrents. For more niche content, like old school TV shows in local language, I would rely in the community. For even more niche content, like tankoubons only available at the time on DD services, I have a specific job but also relying in the same back up provider that I’m using for personal data.

  Also, as it’s important to remind to everyone, you must encrypt your backup no matter where you store it.

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• BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My *arrstack DBs are part of my backed up portion, so they’ll remember what I have downloaded in my non-backed up portion.

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  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a great point.

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• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Set up a job to write the file names of everything in your file system to a text file and make sure that text file gets backed up. I did that on my Unraid server for years in lieu of fully backing up the whole array.

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• whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  servarr* and jellyfin are managing my movies and tv-shows

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• ShortN0te@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That should be part of the backup configuration. You select in the backup tool of choice what you backup. When you poose your array then you download that stuff again?

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