Hey folks, being the family IT man I’ve held onto all of my families photos/videos over the last 20 years

I’ve been pretty careless with the backups and I know if I don’t do anything it’s only a matter of time before I lose them

Although I’ve never used them, tape drives seem to be the best so I thought I’d ask here if anyone uses them for their homelab?

It might be overkill for a few GB of photos but I’d also use the tape drives for data hoarding purposes so it’s a win win in my book

  • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    tape drives seem to be the best

    Tape drives are the keytars of the tech world. They seem cool and a pro can really jam with them… but they’re not the most practical and you should really get a guitar or a keyboard until you know what you’re doing.

    Yeet your shit onto rsync.net or sth else simple and call it a day, unless you’re in it for the meme.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The good ones… Are not cheap (if someone knows a cheap option though, I’d be happy to add it to my own repertoire!)

    For me, I backup with:

    • A second NAS
    • a clone to a NAS at two other homes (family), which also sync to mine
    • Encrypted backups to generic cloud storage

    Edited to add:

    You dont need to backup everything.

    What is being backed up by me at all the locations above:

    • Content I can’t replace (home photos, movies, etc)
    • Configs for services
    • Personal documents and other such data.
    • etc

    Aside from the home movies, its not a huge amount of data. Lots of VHS conversions of graduations, Christmases, etc of long past.

    Locally I back up more to the second NAS including:

    • Content I can replace but this is faster
    • Full backups of VMs
    • LXC snapshots
    • etc

    So while I have a huge amount of storage at home, what’s needed elsewhere is not anywhere near as much.