Re:Ask HN: What's your home media storage/backup strategy?
by wcoenen on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @01:32PM
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> What's your strategy for dealing with your exponentially-increasing home movie collection?
I have a small low-power server running Debian Squeeze:
- ZFS-fuse filesystem (packaged with squeeze)
- disks in ZFS pool are arranged in mirror vdevs to protect against single drive failure
- separate ZFS file systems for archive and less important bulk storage
- weekly cron job: ZFS scrub to verify pool data integrity (and report the result)
- daily cron job: ZFS snapshot archive to protect against user errors
- SAMBA shares so the family can easily use the server.
This still doesn't protect against catastrophes which wipe out both disks at the same time, so I also make copies of my archive on USB disks for off-line storage in another location. That's the annoying part which is the most work.
I will probably move to the BTRFS file system in the future, because it is likely faster than ZFS-fuse and it seems to have support for mixing disk sizes, which makes it easier to grow the storage organically.
I have a small low-power server running Debian Squeeze: - ZFS-fuse filesystem (packaged with squeeze) - disks in ZFS pool are arranged in mirror vdevs to protect against single drive failure - separate ZFS file systems for archive and less important bulk storage - weekly cron job: ZFS scrub to verify pool data integrity (and report the result) - daily cron job: ZFS snapshot archive to protect against user errors - SAMBA shares so the family can easily use the server.
This still doesn't protect against catastrophes which wipe out both disks at the same time, so I also make copies of my archive on USB disks for off-line storage in another location. That's the annoying part which is the most work.
I will probably move to the BTRFS file system in the future, because it is likely faster than ZFS-fuse and it seems to have support for mixing disk sizes, which makes it easier to grow the storage organically.