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How to store data reasonably safely with low budget? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rock2vapor on 2025-02-10 01:30:51.

I had a hard drive of photos and videos that I barely used, but suddenly not working. After some check disk and fixes, it somehow came back to life. I don't know how many files are now bad or dare to touch it.

So I looked into NAS with ZFS to see if I can have checksum and redundancy. That looks reasonably ok. I am in the process of building one. Maybe allowing 2 or 3 disk failures. That's a lot for low budget.

But then, I read that NAS and ZFS is not enough. One must back up. And that means doing 3-2-1, with 2 different types of media (one with back up tape and another with quantum mechanic j/k :-), and 2 are stores at different locations).

Seriously, that sounds good, but that would cost so much. What's your advice?

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