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I have a nas with 2x10tb drives. I mostly just have music, movies and tv shows on it.

People talk about raid not being a backup, but is that relevant for non-original data? I mean I can always get the media again if need be. It would just be an inconvenience.

What would you do?

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[–] ChrislyBear@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

Media Server? No content backup at all.

If you lose everything, just download new stuff you want to watch, or redownload a few TV series/movies.

Music? There are streaming services.

Only backup configurations and maybe application data, so that the reinstall will be easy. Those few kB/MB could sit anywhere. I'm using GitLab for this purpose.

Edit: Images! If you have your photos on there, back them up! They can't be replaced!

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

The streaming services wont work if you have no access to interner lol.

At my last job I had to travel to my work dailly for over an hour in one way, for almost the whole travel I didn't have any network or phone reception.

Will much rather just have music on a media server and a client that allows me to locally download some of my favouritr music for such situations like navidrome and synfonium than pay for spotify premium to allow me to do that.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Streaming services let you just mark playlists for offline use, I have my whole spotify library offline.

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most streaming services have that under a paywall, which in that case I will much rather just make my own if I have a system to do it.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What music streaming service is even usable without paying?

Spotify is the only one that I know of that has a free plan and it's (supposed to be) terrible

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What I'm saying is that if I already have hardware to make one my self, why pay for it?

Edit: also some people just can't afford to payfor streaming services

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Sure you can, but I very much prefer the experience of something like Spotify. It's very easy to find songs and to just listen to them at any time.

And some obviously don't like piracy (I don't care much since I have around 8 TBs of films, shows and other shit with Plex.)

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