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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by Ekaros on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:27PM (#28622069)
RAID is overkill and bad designs can cause more issues than it saves.

Two or more external-DDs, copied regularly per how much they are willing to spend time and lose data. One stored in some other place if possible.

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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:29PM (#28623846)
A Synology NAS with RAID1 and a few terabytes is $400 to $500 including taxes. Seems pretty cheap for not having to back it up regularly. Although, the second location risk would remain.
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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by 20after4 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:44PM (#28623954)
the thing is, if you back up bad data to a RAID1, the mirroring isn't going to save you - you just wrote the bad data to both copies.

RAID is not a substitute for rotating backups.

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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:07PM (#28624102)
Good point!
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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by randomhodler84 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:37PM (#28623904)
Until you get ransomed:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/synology-warn...

You really want offline backups. Never recommend “not having to back it up regularly”.

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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:07PM (#28624103)
Yes, I guess there is no easy way out.
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