Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:09:07PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
Sorry to answer a question that was not addressed to me, but I was just
reading this topic as I had experience in the past few years with this
topic in a project I worked on.
No problem — it's a public list :)
IMO you should do RAID and probably consider doing backups. RAID is the most
essential part
For the majority of use-cases, I really disagree that RAID is ever more
essential than backup. I can cook up some scenarios where this isn't
true, but they are not common ones.
It is all about probability of failure. The probability of a disk to fail is
avg. but it happens. The probability that 2 disks fail at the same time ...
not really except you experience some kind of electric shock or you have a
really bad luck. For this it is recommended to use backup. Some people go
even further burning backups on disks (like blu-rays) because they fear
EMP.
Backups protect you from more than disk failure. You could lose all your
data with perfectly fine disks thanks to software failure, user error,
or malicious attack.
I have used the back to restore data either because I accidentally deleted
something
That's definitely one thing I use backups for, as well as to protect
against disk failure.
--
Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland
✎ jmtd@debian.org
🔗 https://jmtd.net
Reply to: