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[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I can't find anything related to systemd or cron. Does it have its own scheduler? I already set policies. I'm just wondering if I forgot something to setup.

[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] selfmate@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

thanks! I installed it and created my first backup. I'll test it and see how it goes. It looks good. Thank you!

[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

I'll do that, thx!

[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

thx, I'll look into it!

[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

next time with more SATA ports, thx!

[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] selfmate@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

is that your only expansion option on the system you have?

For now, yes, that's the only option. I'll look into internal drives the next time.

thanks for the info about RAID 1 and BTRFS in raid1c2

I'll look into kopia as well since I only knew about borg.

I am using mergerfs for years, it's really neat.

thanks for sharing all of that!

[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

thank, that's good to read!

[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] selfmate@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

that's a neat way of creating the backup! thanks :)

[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] selfmate@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Since you have a server, a NAS is probably the right route.

I don't understand this. Imo, the previous sentence concludes that I want a DAS, not a NAS because I already have a server.

I'll look into zfs and btrfs. Somehow this topic is really difficult to grasp

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[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server (lemmy.zip)
 

I want a server running nextcloud, immich and others.

I have a N100 mini server with a 2TB external HDD. I want to secure the system against data loss. Hence, I want a backup and redundancy.

  1. Most important question: How do I build everything? Is this a NAS? My naive approach is to buy 3 external HDDs and connect them to the N100 with a USB hub. I assume this is not "the right way" but to use/build a NAS. Do I have to build a separate NAS computer? When I lookup NAS buying, it is a computer with a case for 4 drives, excluding the drives and costs 400 bucks. I am confused because this is incredibly expensive compared to what I already have. What is the additional benefit compared to my setup? Am I cheap?

  2. Regarding redundancy, is RAID still the way to go? At 2 TB, using RAID 5 with 3 drives sounds good. I'd have 4 TB of usable space, much more than I intend to use in the next years, and adding a drive increases the storage by 2 TB, effectively increasing space by 50%.

  3. I have 4 TB usable space, but I won't reach 2 TB in the next one or two years. I'd use a 2 TB HDD for a local backup via borg. Once my hot storage needs to increase, I replace the backup drive with a larger one and use it to increase the RAID storage. Is one backup sufficient? Or should I keeping multiple versions of the data. Daily, weekly, monthly backups? What is your experience with it?

  4. Another 2 TB HDD for an offsite backup, LUKS encrypted, backed up once a year (that's the goal for now).

Does that sound good?