adONis@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 months agoRAID or single drive for backups?message-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up123arrow-down1message-squareRAID or single drive for backups?adONis@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 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-squareBCsvenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-29 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/