On 11-07-21 08:05 AM, Chris Ess wrote:
What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at having a few Tb
of storage that I'd like to be able to back up, and I was thinking
tape;
Why not use external drive(s)? This is the solution I'm currently
looking at for my home fileserver.
Because then you have to take care of off-site rotation. You will get tired of
it, you will stop doing it, and you will loose all those digital pictures of
your important life events, as well as all your pem and rsa keys, and other
irreplaceable data when a fire will take your home, your nas device and your
external drive away.
I have had a fire sprinkler system installed in my house, I still automate
off-site backup to an internet backup provider. I am assuming you are in
north-America ; wooden construction has a lot of advantages, but fire
protection is not one of them.
Until checksumed filesystems are more prevalent, you should do differential
backups of your static data anyway, as files do get corrupted.
--
Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/
http://ipv6.SollerS.ca
http://blog.zioup.org/
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