Best Backup for unraid

kvnwds43 · 26 Sep 2019 at 07:30

Hi guys I'm just about to build myself a new nas which I'm going to be storing my home blu ray and dvds on in mkv , I'm going to have approx 8tb of media to start with what's the best Backup solution for unraid.?
I will be useing a parity drive but i know that's no guarantee of not losing everything.

I'm new to nas so bear with me lol.
Should i even use a backup solution to store these items on there?
I'll be useing plex as well as streaming to a vero box, the media are all what i own by the way.

StevieP · 26 Sep 2019 at 08:07

Any local solution simply isn't a proper backup - you need either a cloud solution or a physical copy kept off-site!

The parity drive in unRAID is great in case of a single drive failure (or multiple if you have multiple parity drives) but a backup meeds to be elsewhere!

Personally I backup my vital data to a portable USB drive from time to time and leave it at my parents house!

kvnwds43 · 26 Sep 2019 at 08:43

StevieP said:
Any local solution simply isn't a proper backup - you need either a cloud solution or a physical copy kept off-site!

The parity drive in unRAID is great in case of a single drive failure (or multiple if you have multiple parity drives) but a backup meeds to be elsewhere!

Personally I backup my vital data to a portable USB drive from time to time and leave it at my parents house!

Which cloud solution do you suggest.?
I've heard of crash plan.?

StevieP · 26 Sep 2019 at 15:25

kvnwds43 said:
Which cloud solution do you suggest.?
I've heard of crash plan.?

No idea sorry - I just have a physical backup and leave it elsewhere!

BigT · 26 Sep 2019 at 17:29

If you've got decent upstream bandwidth then the cheapest way I know for big storage in the cloud is to buy a domain and associate it to a business gdrive account for unlimited storage for about £8 a month I think. Technically you are supposed to subscribe with a minimum of three accounts but no one has ever had a problem just subscribing one and using the unlimited storage.

Otherwise buy an external hard drive of sufficient capacity and use the unassigned drives feature to periodically back up to it and take it off site.

Kainz · 27 Sep 2019 at 08:38

For my new NAS that has some 12TB of data currently, I use OneDrive's 1TB of cloud storage that you get an Office 365 subscription. For bigger files on the NAS I use 2x 8TB external HD's and have them stored in a top secret spot outside the house lol.

I tried using Backblaze, which worked fine for storing smaller files in the cloud but for some reason bigger media was uploading at just 2MB/ps, which was far from ideal so I abandoned that idea and turned to external HD's, which are quite cheap.