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First steps on data hoarding? (self.datahoarder)

submitted 2 weeks ago by dirtycrow to c/[email protected]

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I'm thinking of backing all of my family's digital assets up. It includes less than 4 TB of information. Most are redundant video files that are in old encodings or not encoded at all and there are a lot of duplicate images and old documents. I'm gonna clean this stuff up with a bash script and some good old manual review, but first I need to do some pre-planning.

What's the cheapest and most flexible NAS I can make from eBay or local? What kind of processors and what motherboard features?
What separate guides should I follow to source the drives? What RAID?
What backup style should I follow? How many cold copies? How do I even handle the event of a fire?

I intend to do some of this research on my own since no one answer is fully representative but am appreciative of any leads.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would just backup to an external drive or whatever locally. If you want a NAS, a simple SBC will do. If you really want RAID, get an old optiplex and hook up a couple drives in RAID-1.

For drives, get some CMR WD drives under warranty.

Keep one copy encrypted in the cloud, one offline local, another offsite not overly near you.

[–] andioop 1 points 1 week ago

Also doing something pretty similar to OP and do not anticipate needing any more than 4TB for awhile, first I have seen of external drives being approved. (Only own laptops, very intimidated by all this SATA stuff right now—am new and every time I try to learn more on r/datahoarders I feel slammed by information overload.)