datahoarder
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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I had a time where the dreaded situation people warn about happen: a parity drive failed during rebuild to replace a drive that had failed. Rebuild operations are stressful on drives. And if you’re like me in a home setup you probably aren’t swapping out drives preemptively, you’re waiting until smart errors occur because you’re not made of money and the data isn’t truly critical
There are many ways to pursue proper backups (to op), backblaze works for me (though there are some that are more privacy focused, not that backblaze is terrible on that front). I also have tape backup but this is overkill and $$$, really only worthwhile to pursue if you have a gigantic nas and also are good at tinkering (can refurbish cheap drives sold as broken). There are a number of other options too