• Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        14 hours ago

        To be fair, RAID is not backup for itself but if they have their stuff on a computer and then sync it to a NAS RAID then that’s backup.

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          12 hours ago

          Yeah, the idea is that you should have another copy that is disconnected from the main one, if you have that then you do have a backup.

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      22 hours ago

      The best way is to just backup to multiple locations and actively manage it. RAID at the backup destination is nice because it means that if a disk fails, you don’t immediately lose everything there. But if you have multiple places where that data lives then it’s not the end of the world to just re-create the backup.

      If you want to get into true archival solutions(way more expensive than setting up a RAID) then you’re looking at things like M-Disc and LTO tape

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        21 hours ago

        I went M-Disc. Need a special burner and disks cost me $30NZD each or about $18USD for 100GB.

        They are write once (I fucked up two early on) but they should last 100+ years. I burnt about 1TB, and made two copies (one for offsite storage). It was not cheap.