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?

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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        29 days ago

        I’d have to double check but I believe that only works on windows and I know for sure you can’t use it for network shares. I have it on my windows desktop but wasn’t able to backup my media server with it.

    • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Have you read upon the actual recovery experience with cloud backup personal?

      It is very impractical to do a recovery from this service.

      • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        29 days ago

        How so? You can download it all or download specific files or folders

        • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          29 days 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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            29 days 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

  • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Have you considered only backing up the data you can’t replace relatively easily? I would look into a strategy of periodically backing up the list of media in a format that can easily be imported into Radarr or whichever system you used to acquire them. Sure, if the worst happens it’ll take forever to redownload, but you can just prioritise the things you want to watch right now while everything’s rebuilding in the background.

    Definitely do back up photos, documents and your home directory (excluding stuff like a steam library), but hopefully you should be able to fit all that on a NAS or external HD.