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?

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    2 months ago

    36tb? I’d go for tape. It has a higher upfront cost but it can store TBs of data.

    Otherwise I’d go for mdisc, like I do. It’s basically a high quality Blu-ray up to 100GB

    And of course store it in a different location.