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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?

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[–] degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sort your data into stuff you absolutely need to keep (personal files and such) and stuff you'd be okay with losing (less important files, device backups, downloads you can redownload, etc). Then only back up the former. As for backup medium, ServerPartDeals often has some pretty good deals on storage; they were selling refurbished 12TB drives for $80 a pop a while back.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 hours ago

They haven't been selling anything that cheap since the AI driven hard drive shortage. A refurbished 12TB drive is around $200 now.