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One honking big Supermicro SC836 chassis with a Supermicro low power board in it. Stuck FreeNAS on it and backup everything to it using nightly rsync and ZFS r
by leonroy 10y ago
One honking big Supermicro SC836 chassis with a Supermicro low power board in it.
Stuck FreeNAS on it and backup everything to it using nightly rsync and ZFS replication where possible. It has 48TB of storage (16x 3TB).
Critical bits get synced to Amazon Cloud Drive (which took an age).
For backing up my ESXi VMware box I use Nakivo - it's an amazing piece of software - never once had an issue with it and I've used it many times to revert a broken virtual machine.
I've had a lot of experience with hardware failing in my IT life. Been close but very lucky that I've never lost data from a disk or corruption failure. Finally bit the bullet and bought all that kit just for backups. Well worth it.