Right now, I have around 20TB of data in redundant ZFS mirrors, so I am somewhat protected against any single drive failing. Critical data is backed up at various cloud providers, but that’s only a few gigs of all my data.
Looking at S3 pricing, It seems rather unfeasible to back up my data there or on the other “big” cloud providers, as it would cost me around $180 with AWS or half of that with backblaze.
How and where do you guys back up your data?
The real question is how much of that data is irreplaceable. While I hoard like most of you I only off-site backup the hand full of TBs I can’t live without if there was a full system failure. It’s not the perfect solution but most of my hoarded data isn’t mission critical
EDIT: to answer your question though I use AWS glacier storage
Apart from the few gigs of really private and self-made data, most of it would probably be replacable, it’s just a matter of how much work that would be. On the other hand, I wonder how much of my media collection I would actually miss were it to get lost.
I will look into AWS glacier, thank you.
Sounds like we have similar setups, and knowing that I’d highly recommend investing in automating as much of your current setup as possible so you can quickly get things back up and running with little to no interaction. Backing up configurations and library metadata might prove to be pretty useful in resurrecting a dead server.
Also rclone is going to be your best friend if you don’t already have that setup
The egress fees from glacier are astronomical. So if you ever need them you might just decide it’s worth re-downloading. Last I checked Wasabi seemed a better option, but higher priced per month of course.
My line of thinking is that radarr and sonarr are my backups. If the drives went boom then just have those two sync my library. It may take a couple weeks but I can live with that.