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What do you do for backups? I'm just setting up an Emby instance with a 4 TB hard drive attached, but I'm worried it'll fail and take everything with it.

Semaphor 2y ago
Not OP, but I use a PI with attached SSD as a backup server, and then save that stuff to Backblaze B2 as additional cloud backup.
nickspacek 2y ago
Look into Backblaze B2. Use rclone, or another backup tool that has S3 compatibility (though B2 API has some additional bells and whistles). With rclone, you can also have a step to seamlessly encrypt the contents on the client side before sending to an external provider like B2. I chose B2 because it is the most affordable option, but rclone supports many backends.
- switch007 2y ago
  Rclone is a great tool but it is not really a complete backup tool. Ie no snapshots. You can use it to sync local snapshots or to a destination that does snapshots for example Borg/restic are more complete solutions
dharmab 2y ago
Amazon S3 Deep Archive and rclone for < 4-5TB. Backblaze in a Windows VM or container for 5TB+.
- electriclove 2y ago
  Do you have a write up on how to do these?
  - dharmab 2y ago
    No, I sat down for an evening and figured out rclone from their docs: https://rclone.org/docs/ https://rclone.org/docs/
- Beijinger 2y ago
  How much is this a month? Opendrive.com is 100 USD a year for 10 TB
  - dharmab 2y ago
    You can look at their pricing (it depends on region). With my usage I'm paying about $25 annually using S3. But if I ever need to full restore I'll be paying around $100 in data transfer fees.
russelg 2y ago
Is there really a point in backing up media? Unless you've ripped it yourself, I'm sure anything you have is easily obtainable again.
- deleted 2y ago
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- sunflowerfly 2y ago
  A lot of my media are home movies.
- al_borland 2y ago
  Some things are popular in the moment and very hard to come by 10-20 years later if they aren’t pretty popular. TV shows especially. I’ve been considering buying some of those giant DVD lots that come up on Craigslist from time to time, or checking out flea markets for good deals. With the way things are heading, one of my fears is I will get old and lose access to some of the shows are movies I loved in my youth. Licensing with streaming services are so fickle, and some others are removed or edited if they around found to be politically incorrect a decade or two after being made. I want to make sure I still have access to the original versions. I do often wish I was one of those people who didn’t care, and could be happy with an iPad as my main computer, but it’s not in the cards for me.
  - chillfox 2y ago
    This, if you have some favorites or just movies that remind you of your youth, don't wait, go get them on dvd now. It gets harder and more expensive the longer you wait. I have been hunting down the movies that I was watching when growing up and it's been a real mission, especially the really old ones that were made before I was born.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y ago
  You'd think so but lost media is called that for a reason.
- dharmab 2y ago
chillfox 2y ago
In general I use Borg/Borgmatic with borgbase for backup, but movies are a little big, so for now I am just using zfs send/receive to keep a copy on a usb drive updated. Once I am done getting the encoding pipeline scripted (av1/opus/vtt) and the size goes down I will likely start sending it to borgbase as well, or maybe store a copy at my mums place. I would prefer to use a cloud backup solution that supports zfs send/receive, but they are a bit pricy. zfs.rent seems like a nice solution, but not sure using a US location is a great idea.
Beijinger 2y ago
You need two HDD and an online backup (opendrive)

Semaphor 2y ago

Not OP, but I use a PI with attached SSD as a backup server, and then save that stuff to Backblaze B2 as additional cloud backup.

nickspacek 2y ago

Look into Backblaze B2. Use rclone, or another backup tool that has S3 compatibility (though B2 API has some additional bells and whistles). With rclone, you can also have a step to seamlessly encrypt the contents on the client side before sending to an external provider like B2. I chose B2 because it is the most affordable option, but rclone supports many backends.

switch007 2y ago
Rclone is a great tool but it is not really a complete backup tool. Ie no snapshots. You can use it to sync local snapshots or to a destination that does snapshots for example Borg/restic are more complete solutions

dharmab 2y ago

Amazon S3 Deep Archive and rclone for < 4-5TB. Backblaze in a Windows VM or container for 5TB+.

electriclove 2y ago
Do you have a write up on how to do these?
- dharmab 2y ago
  No, I sat down for an evening and figured out rclone from their docs: https://rclone.org/docs/ https://rclone.org/docs/
Beijinger 2y ago
How much is this a month? Opendrive.com is 100 USD a year for 10 TB
- dharmab 2y ago
  You can look at their pricing (it depends on region). With my usage I'm paying about $25 annually using S3. But if I ever need to full restore I'll be paying around $100 in data transfer fees.

russelg 2y ago

Is there really a point in backing up media? Unless you've ripped it yourself, I'm sure anything you have is easily obtainable again.

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sunflowerfly 2y ago
A lot of my media are home movies.
al_borland 2y ago
Some things are popular in the moment and very hard to come by 10-20 years later if they aren’t pretty popular. TV shows especially. I’ve been considering buying some of those giant DVD lots that come up on Craigslist from time to time, or checking out flea markets for good deals. With the way things are heading, one of my fears is I will get old and lose access to some of the shows are movies I loved in my youth. Licensing with streaming services are so fickle, and some others are removed or edited if they around found to be politically incorrect a decade or two after being made. I want to make sure I still have access to the original versions. I do often wish I was one of those people who didn’t care, and could be happy with an iPad as my main computer, but it’s not in the cards for me.
- chillfox 2y ago
  This, if you have some favorites or just movies that remind you of your youth, don't wait, go get them on dvd now. It gets harder and more expensive the longer you wait. I have been hunting down the movies that I was watching when growing up and it's been a real mission, especially the really old ones that were made before I was born.
ThrowawayTestr 2y ago
You'd think so but lost media is called that for a reason.
dharmab 2y ago

chillfox 2y ago

In general I use Borg/Borgmatic with borgbase for backup, but movies are a little big, so for now I am just using zfs send/receive to keep a copy on a usb drive updated. Once I am done getting the encoding pipeline scripted (av1/opus/vtt) and the size goes down I will likely start sending it to borgbase as well, or maybe store a copy at my mums place. I would prefer to use a cloud backup solution that supports zfs send/receive, but they are a bit pricy. zfs.rent seems like a nice solution, but not sure using a US location is a great idea.

Beijinger 2y ago

You need two HDD and an online backup (opendrive)