Hi, currently I have a almost none backups and I want to change them. I have a PC with Nextcloud on 500gb ssd that I also use for gaming (1tb system drive). Nextcloud would be used to store/sync images, documents, contacts, and calendar from my phone and laptop. I also have an old pc that has 2x 80gb, 120gb, 320gb, and 500gb hdd. I want to use it for other backups like OS snapshots, programming projects, etc. but its not a big hdd but a lot of small hdds. Should I store each backup on 2 drives? Can I automate this? Any suggestions would be helpful.

  • chevy9294OPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for your detailed response! I will checkout JBOD arrays, if that wont work I will probably buy newer larger disks.

    • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      JBOD here just means “show me this bunch of old drives as a single drive/partition”. It’s just a recommendation to at least get something out of these drives - but don’t use this as backup storage , these drives are old and if a single one fails, you lose access to the whole array.

      If you’re not sure what to do with them, just get an USB/SATA dock or adapter, and treat them as old books: copy not-so-valuable stuff on them, and store them in a bookshelf with labels such as Old movies, Wikipedia dumps 2015-2022…

      Definitely get a good, new drive for backup storage. And possibly another one for offsite backups.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      btrfs has this built in with additional redundancy, so that is by far the better option to combine multiple drives into one large pool.