I just got my home server up and running and was wondering what you guys recommend for backups. I figure it will probably be worth having backups on cloud servers tjay are external, are there any good services yall use for that?

  • raiun@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    While I agree with you, hard drives do have a shelf life. How many years seems to be up for debate but it does exist. If you don’t have multiple drives that are of different ages you may be in a world of hurt one day.

    • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Why? If you check the drive once a month, and it fails once per 10 years on average, the time when both the back up drive and the main drive fail simultaneously is on average 2340 years.

    • randombullet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I have a hot storage NAS that backups to a warm storage NAS.

      I backup every week and scrub every month.

      I have 2 x ZFS1 pools that contains 3 x 20TB disks each.

      With ECC ram, scrubbing, and independent pools, it’ll take a house fire to kill my local storage.

      I also have a constant backing to Backblaze and yearly encrypted backup that I ship to a friend across the world.