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Techies, what's your personal data storage setup (photos, music, movies, docs) and what do you recommend everyone should be using? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most people realize too late that they didn't have backups of their data or don't realize they can easily setup their own media servers at home. What do you use and suggest? Everything from beginner tech knowledge to advance. TIA

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

ATM
Most of the files are local to my PC
Backed by Veeam to an SMB share.

Anything else like videos, music etc. are on my media server

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Raid is not a backup!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Double Parity is enough of an backup for files that are not important.
Reason why vacation pics are on my IP >_>