December 1, 201213 yr does any one backup to unraid to the same unraid? like 100 gigs from disk1,2,3,4 to disk9 and have disk 9 Excluded so its just for extra backup
December 2, 201213 yr unRAID already has redundancy, so what would be the point? To me, it would seem like a waste of a hard drive. Especially when your array grows larger than 5 disks... but maybe I'm missing something.
December 2, 201213 yr Author unRAID already has redundancy, so what would be the point? To me, it would seem like a waste of a hard drive. Especially when your array grows larger than 5 disks... but maybe I'm missing something. i was thinking of extra extra redundancy i already have crashplan installed.... i was also thinking of only backing up data that i didnt want to lose i guess it would be a half ass raid 6 in case something went wrong with the other drives i might have 50tbs of data but only want to backup 1-2tbs to the excluded disk
December 2, 201213 yr I "backup" critical files (basically photos) to a second drive on the same unraid (as well as portable disks some of which are off site). It may be wasteful, but it lets me feel a little more comfortable that to lose the unraid copy of critical files the two disks which happen to contain the files would need to fail simultaneously.
December 2, 201213 yr I don't have unraid backup twice. But I do keep pictures on a backup share in u raid, on my desktop, and on my laptop. So it would take a lot of badluck to lose all three drives plus parity. I also upload them to dropbox
December 2, 201213 yr I have my photos backed up on another drive in my unraid build. Space is cheap, but attempting to retake or rebuild my photos is not.
December 3, 201213 yr If your data is that important, I would backup to a second system or even better a separate site. Think power surge, theft, etc. If you loose one, you risk the loss of both drives (+ unraid redundancy).
December 4, 201213 yr Author If your data is that important, I would backup to a second system or even better a separate site. Think power surge, theft, etc. If you loose one, you risk the loss of both drives (+ unraid redundancy). right now i have it backing up to crash-plan which is my offsite and have a extra drive outside of the unraid for the important data copyed which is 2 copys i was looking for a 3rd which be right on unraid on its own disk
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