ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netRAID is for continuous of operations, backup is for restoration after a failure.
I have both, but run Raid-6 on my array due to the size of the drives. As has been observed here, if one drive fails and then another drive fails during the rebuild, you’ve lost everything.
Then to add to that I’ve got backups of everything I can’t replace. Plex library will come back automatically (though it will take a while). But my documents, digital filing cabinet, pictures, videos of my kids, those are all protected by raid, backup, AND off-site replication.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
its usually for redudancy but prople tend to use the wrong term for it.
unless the data is off site, its not truely a backup
Two is one and one is none. No matter if it’s offsite or on top of your main server. Also 3-2-1 is an industry standard for a reason. Plus unless you test that you can actually restore your backups they don’t really exist (also known as Schrödinger Backups).
nexttech@lemmy.world 5 days ago
people* 🤓 👆