May 28, 201115 yr As the title says, do you have a back up of your unraid server or do you just trust unraid will keep everything safe and secure? I was thinking about setting up my server without a back up and just have a couple of pre cleared drives ready to go in the case of a drive failure, what do you guys think? I also have enough external drives/enclosures to set up a JBOD mirror of all my unraid data or is that going a little paranoid? I'd like to hear what you guys think and if you believe unraid will protect my/your data to perfection.
May 28, 201115 yr Once again, unRAID by itself is not a backup solution unless the original data resides elsewhere. It is a means of protecting against a single disk failure. My important data is backed-up offsite at multiple locations.
May 28, 201115 yr Author So it sorta is worth protecting but always best to keep the real important stuff backed up twice? such as on the unraid system and once off of it? I was planning on doing this, backing up all my movies, music and tv shows on my unraid system and then making a JBOD backup with my HTPC and it's connected 2TB drives which will total up to 14TB plus 8+8TB which should be enough to backup all the data I got on the unraid server. So even if you've taken some tolerance moves like setting up pre cleared drives to drop them in, in the case of a drive failure is not enough?? you should still have a mirrored back up of everythng if I'm getting you correctly? +
May 28, 201115 yr For me critical items (photos, home video, tax reports, etc) are backed up to multiple USB disks a couple of which are kept off site. Favourite DVDs and Music are also mirrored on USB disk, to save reripping if unRAID box dies. Reripping and/or insurance looks after the rest.
May 28, 201115 yr Trick question... Yes and no.. No, because i do not trust my media collection and important documents on any one hard drive/location. right now, all data that is on my unraid is also on a server2008r2 raid. i use the unraid version of my media for power savings. Yes, because eventually (real near future) I'll put my second unraid server together that will mirror my main unraid box (and clearing up my 2008 arrays as I'll delete the triplicated data). the chance of both servers dieing at once will be pretty slim. There will be a week or 2 delay between the 2 servers in case of data corruption or accidental deletion. I know a 2 week gap is large but I'm not going to loose anything i cant re-rip or DL and i don't want a live snapshot in case of the above. at the same time, I also don't want to re-rip hundreds of DVD's or Blurays. If i loose multiple drives, that just takes forever. The second server pays for my time IMO. my really important files (those i cannot loose) go to my WHS (duplication on) that is then backed up onto unraid and then onto the second unraid. 4 copies should be good right? lol I would love an automated script that runs daily and dumps a Dir/LS of every drive to a text file on the cash drive or flash drive so i know what is lost if a drive is lost. but that's getting off topic.
May 29, 201115 yr my really important files (those i cannot loose) go to my WHS (duplication on) that is then backed up onto unraid and then onto the second unraid. 4 copies should be good right? lol no, no, no, no. If all 4 copies are at your home, one good fire/flood/tornado/lightning strike can take all 4 copes and make them useless. One of the copies should be off-site. If you like, get a bank safe deposit box that can hold a disk drive (most can) put a copy of the really important files on that drive, store it in the vault. It is far less likely to be hurt by a natural disaster. Joe L.
May 29, 201115 yr LoL.. If i have fire and flood. the least of my worries is my digital data.. But yes, i did not mention in this post that my WHS is synced to a second WHS at my dads house that is also duplicated. so technically i have 6 copies..
June 1, 201115 yr LoL.. If i have fire and flood. the least of my worries is my digital data.. Some people keep copies of all kinds of important documents (tax forms, titles, deeds, marriage licenses, diplomas, etc.) as digital documents. If you go to that much trouble, then you probably want those things protected against a natural disaster. unRAID is my first-line local backup. All my truly important stuff is also backed up to various computers belonging to family members (via Crashplan).
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