I have a Synology 4-bay san that has 4 2-tb drives in a raid stripe. I backup to that. I do convert software cd’s and dvd to .iso and floppies to .img and copy the results to the san.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 2, 2023, at 07:27, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 2/2/23 05:54, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: >> On 2023-02-02 04:38, David Brownlee wrote: >> >> > That reminds me (looks at 43.5T of zfs pool that has not had a scrub >> > since 2021). >> > >> > It can be nice to have a filesystem which handles redundancy and also >> > the option to occasionally read all the data, check end to end >> > checksums (in the unlikely case a device returns a successful read >> > with bad data), and fixup everything. Does not eliminate the need for >> > remote copies, but gives a little extra confidence that the master >> > copy is still what it should be :) >> >> So, what else do you guys use, to make sure your data is safe for the years >> to come? > > I do many backups on blu-ray DVD's, the theory is if they start to go bad, > maybe partial recovery of important files will be possible due to having many > copies on DVD. > > This is getting a bit difficult as the amount of stuff to be backed up is > just a bit too big for a single blu-ray disc. > > I also do much more frequent backups to a large hard drive. > > Jon >
