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Hello!! Some recent technical problems on my family's NAS gave me a big scare and finally pushed me to figure out a way to back it all up. I'm asking here specifically because I really don't know where to even starts because of the fact I've got just under 50 terabytes worth of data stored in a 7-disk RAID-5 and would prefer to keep it cheap. What are your suggestions?

Edit: thank you for all the suggestions, I'll probably be considering using Backblaze for backups, or perhaps seeing if I can scrounge up old unused disks from people I know. Thank you all again <3

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I have 45TB of data and the majority of that is definitely downloaded media. They call us data hoarders for a reason.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Oh sure I understand data hoarding. I was just thinking, to restore 50 tb from the internet is going to take more than a fortnight.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

It's literally downloading the same amount of data you would be backing up, and you won't be charged hourly for downloading it from the internet as opposed to a large storage service.