July 2, 201412 yr Hi I'm looking for a way to backup my media which is over 25+ TB and it's growing fast. It's practically not feasible to buy another storage and backup to it. So, how are you guys taking backups? Online Backups? Cheers
July 2, 201412 yr 25TB backed up on-line at 10Mbit/s would take about 10 months if done continuously. That level of on-line storage would also have a cost, and by the time you'd backed it up you'd probably have a bunch more to back up as well. Not sure what your up-link speed is - I see 12Mbit/s uplink on a good day. It's a personal choice, but I consider that a less practical approach than a second server that can be locally connected via an ethernet link. It depends on what is valuable to you - time to backup, time to recover the data (or to reacquire it if Blu-ray rips and the like), money, ease of access, etc.
July 2, 201412 yr 25TB and growing fast?!? Geez stop trying to download the entire internet! Lol anyways, I only backup my critical data (pictures, documents, ect). If I happen to lose all my media then so be it. That being said, if you really want to backup all 25 TB, another server will probably be the cheapest way. If you really wanted to get fancy, you could keep the server at a family members house and setup their router with a VPN and connect to your backup server that way (incase of fire at one house ect) although transferring TB of data over the internet will be painfully slow unless both houses have really good bandwidth speeds.
July 2, 201412 yr if going the double server route, I'd have them locally sync'd, before separating them. Then keep them updated via rsync or the like
July 2, 201412 yr if going the double server route, I'd have them locally sync'd, before separating them. Then keep them updated via rsync or the like And if someone breaks into your home and steals both servers or you have a fire or flood? If your goal is high availabily with multiple file servers, look at a distributed file system. If your goal is better fault tolerance than what unRAID offers look at SnapRAID or FlexRAID. If your goal is to have a secure backup in case of worst case senerio, back it up and store it offsite.
July 3, 201412 yr anybody tried backing up 20tb to crashplan? crashplan says unlimited data... i have about 3TB and rising on bitcasa's old cheap infinite prices.... but once they change that loophole then i will let it go
July 3, 201412 yr anybody tried backing up 20tb to crashplan? crashplan says unlimited data... i have about 3TB and rising on bitcasa's old cheap infinite prices.... but once they change that loophole then i will let it go I've got about 1TB up on CrashPlan. I'm only backing up "critical" data, not media. I havent heard about anyone being denied as much space as they want, nor have I read about anyone being throttled or anything like that.
July 3, 201412 yr Other people who have used crashplan have reported that it is basically impossible to recover large amounts of data on these forums.... 2nd server in 2nd location is probably the cheapest most realistic method...
July 3, 201412 yr Other people who have used crashplan have reported that it is basically impossible to recover large amounts of data on these forums.... 2nd server in 2nd location is probably the cheapest most realistic method... CrashPlan has their "Restore-to-Door" service for up to 3.5TB in data for $165, where they overnight you a hard drive with your data.
July 4, 201412 yr This is the thread I was thinking of :- http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31168 I basically gave up with Crashplan because backup was throttled so it was going to take several years to backup my files, this was a while back however so things might have improved since then. Certainly I have had a lot of success backing up family laptops etc.
July 8, 201412 yr Don't have nearly that much data yet to backup. So far I have been using a second box to backup only important files or stuff I don't have a copy of elsewhere. I keep it next door at a family members home. In an ideal world I would have a complete backup, just not practical.
July 8, 201412 yr Believe it or not but i backup onto the same server as my data ... alternate data/backup across disc pairs hoping that if i lose a disc i'll get it back off the 'paired' disc. It's a strategy of sorts and better than no backup at all but if i lose the whole server then .... kaboom! Plan was always to pair the servers as well. Then i'd lose next to nothing as opposed to possibley losing a server's full of data or backups. Still following me? Where's the flaw in my plan, i'm sure there are more than just the loss of a whole server ...
July 9, 201412 yr I restored @800 GB last month from CrashPlan. rm -rf is a bad command LOL. Kryspy When I was first learning the basic commands, I found putting alias rm 'rm -i' # Confirm file removal into the .alias file useful, saved many a mistake from happening. Even now I tend to keep it around, sometimes my fingers type quicker than I think, keeps me from losing files by mistake.
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