Hello!! Some recent technical problems on my family’s NAS gave me a big scare and finally pushed me to figure out a way to back it all up. I’m asking here specifically because I really don’t know where to even starts because of the fact I’ve got just under 50 terabytes worth of data stored in a 7-disk RAID-5 and would prefer to keep it cheap. What are your suggestions?

Edit: thank you for all the suggestions, I’ll probably be considering using Backblaze for backups, or perhaps seeing if I can scrounge up old unused disks from people I know. Thank you all again <3

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    16 hours ago

    I have 45TB of data and the majority of that is definitely downloaded media. They call us data hoarders for a reason.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      16 hours ago

      Oh sure I understand data hoarding. I was just thinking, to restore 50 tb from the internet is going to take more than a fortnight.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        16 hours ago

        It’s literally downloading the same amount of data you would be backing up, and you won’t be charged hourly for downloading it from the internet as opposed to a large storage service.