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?

  • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You think you can get the media again if need be.

    Depending on how large your collection is, would you remember every item in it? How much effort did you put into organizing it?

    IME it’s far more of an inconvenience and expense rebuilding data from scratch than properly backing it up. And the peace of mind from a robust, tried and true DR process is golden.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I only backup data that I either can’t replace or would have to spend significant effort to replace. Most of what’s on a media server doesn’t fall into that category.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m probably an outlier, but I have a full 3-2-1 backup. Over 100Tb myself, with it all backed up. I have a safe off-site I back everything up to weekly and then annually I do a full backup to LTO tapes.

    I lost my media once. I don’t want to go through that again.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Wow!

      Given your previous experience, your approach is understandable.

      I have an old raid setup on which the card died, and Crashplan deleted my Backups when the array went offline (yea, I was pissed)l.

      One of these days I’ll find a card on ebay, recover everything, and back it up again.

      If I’d had a second backup…

  • ChrislyBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Media Server? No content backup at all.

    If you lose everything, just download new stuff you want to watch, or redownload a few TV series/movies.

    Music? There are streaming services.

    Only backup configurations and maybe application data, so that the reinstall will be easy. Those few kB/MB could sit anywhere. I’m using GitLab for this purpose.

    Edit: Images! If you have your photos on there, back them up! They can’t be replaced!

    • CronyAkatsuki@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyzEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The streaming services wont work if you have no access to interner lol.

      At my last job I had to travel to my work dailly for over an hour in one way, for almost the whole travel I didn’t have any network or phone reception.

      Will much rather just have music on a media server and a client that allows me to locally download some of my favouritr music for such situations like navidrome and synfonium than pay for spotify premium to allow me to do that.