adONis@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world · 7 months agoRAID or single drive for backups?message-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up122arrow-down1message-squareRAID or single drive for backups?adONis@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
Basically title. Is it common to use some kind of RAID for backing up other RAIDs or do people just go with single drives?
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-27 months ago2 Single drives means 2 full copies, one you can keep at a friends place. 2 mirrored drives means if you accidentally overwrite a backup, you have lost both drives to the error, unless you have snapshotting or imcremental backups. Lots of good backup advice on this podcast https://2.5admins.com/
2 Single drives means 2 full copies, one you can keep at a friends place. 2 mirrored drives means if you accidentally overwrite a backup, you have lost both drives to the error, unless you have snapshotting or imcremental backups.
Lots of good backup advice on this podcast https://2.5admins.com/