Submitted 11 months ago by DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I have a nas with 2x10tb drives. I mostly just have music, movies and tv shows on it.
People talk about raid not being a backup, but is that relevant for non-original data? I mean I can always get the media again if need be. It would just be an inconvenience.
What would you do?
I have a similar setup.
I have a 16tb USB HDD that syncs to my NAS whenever my workstation is idle for 20 mins.
Yeah. I only have 6TB. Most of it is just movies and shows for plex. I don’t have backup at all. I could always redownload what i want to watch. I noticed that i rarely rewatch what i download. It’s pointless to backup it.
I have it replicated to a backup server then to one in the dc
You have a data center?
I have a full rack colocation, been doing colocation for other people aswell
I have all my spare drives pooled together into a frankenNAS system in a spare Fractal R5 case. Whatever media fits gets a backup on there (in order of personal importance). Otherwise I will reacquire all my ISO’s should disaster strike.
R7 gang here. Let us keep the dream alive!
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I have some rare media that I know would be extremely difficult to replace, so I back that up, but the general stuff is less important.
However, with rights holders constantly trying to move away from the idea of permanent physical ownership, some media will become harder and harder to find in their best or purest forms, disks will go out of print and the used market will start to slowly die as media ages and rots.