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minus-square@Serinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoA raid is not a backup. But also look at Unraid and maybe more, smaller drives.
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year agoFair point. I’ll probably run a RAID5 with extra drives and replicate to a cloud location for DR. Should be more than sufficient for my needs and the rate I generate data. I haven’t done any specing out yet – just brainstorming.
minus-squareblueConiferlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI’m new to the scene. If a raid isn’t a backup, then what is?
minus-square@limelight79@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoIt provides redundancy in case a drive fails, but there’s no protection if you accidentally delete a file. That’s why they say “RAID is not a backup.”
minus-square@Serinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoSomething where your files won’t disappear due to a single errant command or ransomware.
A raid is not a backup.
But also look at Unraid and maybe more, smaller drives.
Fair point. I’ll probably run a RAID5 with extra drives and replicate to a cloud location for DR. Should be more than sufficient for my needs and the rate I generate data. I haven’t done any specing out yet – just brainstorming.
I’m new to the scene. If a raid isn’t a backup, then what is?
It provides redundancy in case a drive fails, but there’s no protection if you accidentally delete a file. That’s why they say “RAID is not a backup.”
Something where your files won’t disappear due to a single errant command or ransomware.