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Raidz2 or btrfs for important document storage? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I currently have a secondary pool (with raidz2) that I was originally going to use for my important documents, such as storage for Paperless-ngx, as raidz offers corruption detection and repair. The pool is encrypted.

However, I'm concerned about rebuild times (it's a pool of 4 22TB drives). Is btrfs a better choice for this use case, or should I just go with raidz like I originally planned?

Edit: I should have mentioned that I already have 4-3-2 backups configured - I'm primarily interested in the "self-healing" aspect of ZFS so that I don't have to recover from backups unless necessary, and to resolve corruption on the fly without me having to notice that a file is corrupt.

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (11 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS	Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPN	Virtual Private Network
ZFS	Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
nginx	Popular HTTP server

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Why was this upvoted? It's AI slop giving definitions for acronyms that aren't in this thread and not even related to backups.

[–] homik@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

At least this time it has a few terms that people might not know. Usually it just spasms obvious trivialities.

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