Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
HDDs can fail too. I’d probably use a Raspberry Pi + SSD if putting it at someone else’s house, since they will both be very quiet. I have a 14TB HDD at my house for backups, and it’s pretty noisy.
If you really want redundancy you can use a mirrored array but for one backup of multiple I probably wouldn’t, especially if there’s a cloud backup in there.
Is that mirrored array referring to RAID?
I literally have no knowledge in this stuff. Once you have something like this setup, how does it work? Once you configure it, does it automatically backup files in a certain location on your computer?, or do you manually move files onto it that you want to backup?
Oh man I’m gonna show my lack of knowledge too 🙂. I’ll try anyway, but take everything I say with a grain of salt.
There are different types of RAID, but I believe RAID 1 would be a mirrored array. This Lemmy instance is on a ZFS mirrored array, but that’s handled by the host so I don’t have to understand it 🙃. I am not sure if the ZFS mirror is considered RAID but it’s basically the same thing as RAID 1 (perhaps one is hardware one is software based?)
I see this setup as more of a redundancy for a live system so it can continue with one of the drives after a failure without downtime, and I probably wouldn’t consider the mirrored drive a backup. But I’m no expert!
I always mean to do some more research into the topic, and never get past that stage lol. Maybe this time will be different… maybe… lol