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For important documents (insurance docs, mortgage, etc) I use SyncThing, for media I use my RAID1 array. I'd certainly hope that RAID1 works as I expect it to i
by guntherhermann 4y ago
For important documents (insurance docs, mortgage, etc) I use SyncThing, for media I use my RAID1 array. I'd certainly hope that RAID1 works as I expect it to if one of my HDDs shit the bed! It's a good point though, backups aren't really backups unless they're tested... brb...
- cm2187 4y agoAnd RAID1 isn't a backup. If you delete a file accidently, it doesn't help you.
- bluGill 4y agoI have snapshots on my NAS, so nothing is really deleted. I supposed in another 10 years I'll have to start pruning old files, but disks are cheap and I don't really have that much data. For that matter I generally don't delete anything. If I save it to my computer odds are it is something I want to keep for the rest of my life (that is family pictures). There are a few distro images that I download once in a while and then delete, but for the most part disk is cheap, and I don't have time to delete old stuff.
- dsr_ 4y agoRAID and snapshots aren't a backup either: lightning strikes/house fires/earthquakes/floods kill all the disks together. A backup is a restorable copy in some location not sharing much fate with the primary location. Right now you might consider "all copies in one city" to have too much fate in common, but "all copies in one country" to be acceptable, or "all copies on Earth".
- bluGill 4y agoThere are many levels. Raid with snapshots is a useful level, though not perfect.