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I have a nas with 2x10tb drives. I mostly just have music, movies and tv shows on it.

People talk about raid not being a backup, but is that relevant for non-original data? I mean I can always get the media again if need be. It would just be an inconvenience.

What would you do?

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[-] jdrch@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Mine is fully backed up.

[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
VPN Virtual Private Network

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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

I just want to add, you may not need to backup what you think you can redownload easily.

There are cases of series or movies being really difficult to find or it takes you a long time to find a working torrent. For those it definitely should make sense to back them up, but its a bit subjective feeling which ones those might be.

Another thing in my case, I got movies and seriea for my child on the server. He expects that is accessible, always, and is too young to understand that data can get lost. So I am also backing that up, it could be easily replaced but it would take me time and this would result in my child being unhappy. Not worth it!

[-] Tsubodai@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I backup my music, photos, docker settings and that's about it. Daily backups to one external HDD, but recently setup a second backup that's runs weekly juuuuust in case. The music is only because it's taken me a long time to build upy library, and that would be painful to lose. TV, movies, meh.

[-] 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah. I only have 6TB. Most of it is just movies and shows for plex. I don’t have backup at all. I could always redownload what i want to watch. I noticed that i rarely rewatch what i download. It’s pointless to backup it.

[-] humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I have all my spare drives pooled together into a frankenNAS system in a spare Fractal R5 case. Whatever media fits gets a backup on there (in order of personal importance). Otherwise I will reacquire all my ISO's should disaster strike.

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[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I have it replicated to a backup server then to one in the dc

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 11 months ago
[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I have a full rack colocation, been doing colocation for other people aswell

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 11 months ago

That's cool. I'd probably do that if I could justify the costs

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Well if you ever do want to discuss it feel free to give me a shout ;)

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I have a similar setup.

I have a 16tb USB HDD that syncs to my NAS whenever my workstation is idle for 20 mins.

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

I have some rare media that I know would be extremely difficult to replace, so I back that up, but the general stuff is less important.

However, with rights holders constantly trying to move away from the idea of permanent physical ownership, some media will become harder and harder to find in their best or purest forms, disks will go out of print and the used market will start to slowly die as media ages and rots.

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