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Cheapest way to back up a lot of data? (pawb.social)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello!! Some recent technical problems on my family's NAS gave me a big scare and finally pushed me to figure out a way to back it all up. I'm asking here specifically because I really don't know where to even starts because of the fact I've got just under 50 terabytes worth of data stored in a 7-disk RAID-5 and would prefer to keep it cheap. What are your suggestions?

Edit: thank you for all the suggestions, I'll probably be considering using Backblaze for backups, or perhaps seeing if I can scrounge up old unused disks from people I know. Thank you all again <3

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[–] 5 points 9 months ago

The cheapest medium is tape. It is by far the lowest price per terabyte. The tradeoff is that the drives are pricey, even the used ones, and it's a huge pain to read the data back out (but in a recovery scenario, that's tolerable).

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