submitted 10 months ago by ckbois@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Hey!
I am a music producer and I run all my session off external SanDisk hard drives.
I'd love a single place I could plug in the drives that could back them up on mirrored drives. Is a NAS the best option for this? I don't really care about the cloud or internet connectivity, just a safe solution incase my drives fail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! :)

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[-] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

You basically do the other way around. Buy a NAS for your primary storage since it provides redundancy (RAID) and that you can reach it from anywhere. Then you attach external drives to it for one of the backups of the data from the NAS. The second copy should go to another physical place. The cloud or a friends house. It’s called a 3-2-1 backup strategy.

[-] Far_Marsupial6303@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

RAID NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL BE A BACKUP!

Your local external backup is for quick recovery. Your offsite backup is in the event of a local catastrophe; fire, flood, hurricane/tornado, power surge, theft, etc. that takes out your NAS and local backup.

[-] UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

NAS is a good choice imo. use raid 1 to mirror the drives, this way if one shits the bed, the information still lives. I have an old dual core running my NAS with 4 drives, one for the OS and 3 in raid 1 to make sure i dont lose anything. I've had drives fail before, and its nice to know its all still there.

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