I’ve always heard that you folks like to keep tons of backups of your stuff. I have also heard that there is this 3-2-1 rule about keeping you backups. My question is: do you follow it personally or is it something that people just tell you to follow?

  • wallacebrf@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    yes, i am over 100TB and backup everything on two sets of external disk arrays. one is at my house only powered when i perform my monthly backup and the other is at the in-laws house. i swap the two sets every 3 months

    here are the enclosures i use

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MD2LNYX. between all my backups i have 4x of these enclosures and 32x drives

    backup 1

    –> 8 bay USB disk enclosure #1: filled with various old disks i had that are between 4TB and 10TB each. the total USABLE space is 71TB

    –> 8 bay USB disk enclosure #2: filled with various old disks i had that are between 4TB and 10TB each. the total USABLE space is 68TB

    Backup 2

    Exact duplicate of backup #1.

    i have windows stable bit drive pool to pool all of the drives in each enclosure. i also use bitlocker to encrypt the disks when not in use.