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Subject: Laptop crash, lost it all

rokket opened this issue on Jan 17, 2024 ยท 6 posts


dreamcutter posted Mon, 12 February 2024 at 7:55 AM

On the topic of backups...
Something compelling I recently discovered as a cloud backup alternative is a DIY home UNRAID server.  For daily backups, many are not finding Cloud backup providers being very reliable (many have shut down due to failed business models) and affordable.  I have found that an  obsolete PC from a decade ago will serve fine as a fault tolerant home backup server running UNRAID, a very simple to use system that can host data volumes of stripe & parity disks of differing sizes/types.  Normally a fault tolerant raid system requires a set of matched hard drives to make a Redundant Array of Independent Disk drives (RAID) data storage system for a server.  UNRAID tosses those expensive and complex requirements by the wayside and provides a very stable platform to host a backup service, VPC instances and many other APP servers.  That means you can take advantage of huge de-commissioned (used) data center hard drives  in the 10TB+ range very affordably (EBAY/NewEgg/ Amazon) ,  used these drives sell for approx. 20% of new, and the data protection and drive fail over  and restoration capability dramatically reduces the risk of data loss in the event one of the used drives fails.  Data centers typically upgrade hard drives inside of 2 years, well within the estimated MTBF (Millions of Hrs), and they operate 24x7 so most have hope users have decent experiences using the devices in a RAID.  Do know that a TB drive takes many hours to initialize.  A 50TB array on a LSI controller will take about 8-10 days depending on the drives.  Also cost in the factor of electricity,  An awake and operating 450watt PC running 24x7 can cost as much as $400/a year depending on the cost of electricity, so a backup system that "sleeps" most of the time is desirable to keep costs down.