On 15/08/2022 00:20, Dale wrote:
Right now, my backups are external hard drives. I have a 3TB, a 6TB and a 8TB that sadly is SMR. They are encrypted and after I do my backup updates, they go in a fire safe. I tend to do updates once a week, usually while I'm doing OS updates.
That NAS idea sounds good. And while it would be a hassle, you could raid-10 those three drives together. Not quite sure how that would play out with SMR ... Or you could btrfs them.
You don't mention any snapshot mechanism like LVM or btrfs - imho that's quite important because if your data *changes* you get multiple full backups for the price of incremental. Although I get the impression you mostly *add* to your data instead ... :-)
And are there any filesystems that compress in-place? But the other question is what sort of data do you have? HOW COMPRESSIBLE IS IT? Compressing jpegs for example is a bad idea - it usually makes them bigger!
Cheers, Wol
