Best backup solution

Dirk Diggler · 21 Feb 2016 at 10:45

If I had 2*6TB drives, one to be used with Plex and the other for backup and only 4GB of data to store, what would be the best solution for backup:

Copy the data to both drives, and as I add to the drive that the Plex server uses, I also remember to copy across to the backup drive.
A RAID setup.

I've never used RAID, and am trying to work it out. Basically, I want to go on the assumption that one of the drives dies with no way of retrieving the data.

Dirk Diggler · 21 Feb 2016 at 11:00

rpstewart said:
RAID is for redundancy and availability rather than backups.

Keep the drives separate and sync the "live" one to the backup disk regularly. Best best is to use the backup disk externally so that it's only on when needed.

Makes sense, what would be the best sync method... Simply arrange files by date on both drives and see what is newer on the live drive? Or is there a more eloquent solution?

Dirk Diggler · 21 Feb 2016 at 13:15

bledd. said:
robocopy /mir "x:\source drive\folder" "\\destination drive\folder"

That will copy all changes from source to destination.

Stunning.

Cheers.

Dirk Diggler · 21 Feb 2016 at 14:37

bledd. said:
Either schedule it or type it up in notepad, then save it as 'backup script.bat' or whatever, then run it each time you want it to do the backup.

Just to be clear...

If source is D: and destination is E: the syntax would be...

robocopy /mir "x:\D:" "\\E:"

Dirk Diggler · 21 Feb 2016 at 15:01

Source - D: Media Server
Destination - E: Backup

I never thought of hidden files in the root dir, good point.

Thanks.