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What is your linux backup strategy?
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You seem pretty organized in your strategy, I would suggest you just pull a drive in your LVM to check how that goes for you. I've had issues in JBOD style LVM volumes with drive swaps, but YMMV.
Frankly, I use ZFS now in anything that I would have use LVM in before. The feature set is way more robust. Also, an offsite ZFS replication to zfs.rent is a good backup of a backup. But Backblaze is pretty solid too.
Hetzner's storage boxes have caught my eye but i haven't tried them yet.
Good call on a simulated failure. When I first set it up, it was LVM/BTRFS or ZFS as my top choices. It was a coin toss at the time because I hadn't built this sort of setup before.
Yah, an untested raid is like an untested backup: suspect.