@cayars said:
@Elijah_Baley said:
@danjames92 said:
I don’t have a backup plan. Media is spread across 2 x 3TB drives and 1 2TB. It gets difficult when you have 7.4TB of media.YOLO :))
7.4 TB of media is nothing. (Well not nothing but quite small) I have almost 18 TB of media and my library is quite small compared to many that post here. There are several folks with upwards of 30-40 TB of data.
With the prices of drives being as low as they and the difficulty of re-ripping and recreating libraries it really makes little sense to not at least back up the videos themselves. But that is entirely up to each person’s desires.
Whether local or online it is simply a good idea to backup any and all data that is not real easy to recreate.
Yea, 7.4 TB is easy to backup. Just pickup a Seagate 8TB Archive drive and call it a day.
I’ve got 2 independent backups offsite in the cloud.
I use Snapraid with 2 parity drives at present locally. So at present it would take a 3 drive failure for me to loose data on any one drive. In that case I can pull 1 drive worth of content down from the cloud in about 2 days (done it testing).I just ordered a few more drives. I’m going to add a 3rd parity drive as well as add more drive space as I’m getting low. Starting next month I’m going to start ordering a new drive each paycheck to use strictly for backup. I’ll connect the drive, fill it and then remove and archive it (offsite).
By end of March I should have 4 parity drives as well as a complete backup on HDDs that are offsite.
While backing up to the cloud has worked well for me in the past/present it’s far to easy for any cloud provider to change their terms. I’ve gotten burnt by Bitcasa and MS Onedrive. Wouldn’t surprise me if Amazon was to do the same thing in the near future.
Any chance you would be willing to write a blog post or a forum post detailing how you use SnapRAID? I’m really interested in using it but I’m worried I would set something up wrong. I’d love some advice from someone that has clearly gone through the motions.
I’m using StableBit DrivePool for my drives but I’m not mirroring my videos as they are just too large. I would love to use SnapRAID for them if at all possible.
