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I have a 56 TB local Unraid NAS that is parity protected against single drive failure, and while I think a single drive failing and being parity recovered covers data loss 95% of the time, I'm always concerned about two drives failing or a site-/system-wide disaster that takes out the whole NAS.

For other larger local hosters who are smarter and more prepared, what do you do? Do you sync it off site? How do you deal with cost and bandwidth needs if so? What other backup strategies do you use?

(Sorry if this standard scenario has been discussed - searching didn't turn up anything.)

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[–] kaotic@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Backblaze offers unlimited data on a single computer, $99/year.

There might be some fine print that excludes your setup but might be worth investigating.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing

[–] unit327@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Wine or there is a Docker container that runs the Backblaze client.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, people have done workarounds and stuff to get their entire NAS backed up but those seemed sketchy and bad when I looked into it.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

if you break their TOS, you'll likely lose your data. So.... be careful. Mind you, I haven't read their TOS, so i don't know if those work arounds are breaking their TOS.