I’m running my media server with a 36tb raid5 array with 3 disks, so I do have some resilience to drives failing. But currently can only afford to loose a single drive at a time, which got me thinking about backups. Normally I’d just do a backup to my NAS, but that quickly gets ridiculous for me with the size of my library, which is significantly larger than my NAS storage of only a few tb. And buying cloud storage is much too expensive for my liking with these amounts of storage.

Do you backup only the most valuable parts of your library?

  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    So this is just from the top of my head, there are several reddit threads about this.

    You can only bulk download in 5gb (maybe 50gb) chunks. With limited speed and unreliable connections (aborted downloads etc)

    Have you ever tried downloading a big size of your data? Never used it myself.

    • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Oh i haven’t heard of that. I haven’t downloaded huge chunks no. I think you can connect with clients that allow pausing and continuing can’t you?

      You can also have a usb/harddrive shipped to you with your data to transfer everything quicker and its free if you ship the usb/harddrive back

      • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Nothing i am aware of, but as i said I never tried it myself. Let me know if you find something out.