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Cheapest way to back up a lot of data? (pawb.social)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Inkstainthebat@pawb.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello!! Some recent technical problems on my family's NAS gave me a big scare and finally pushed me to figure out a way to back it all up. I'm asking here specifically because I really don't know where to even starts because of the fact I've got just under 50 terabytes worth of data stored in a 7-disk RAID-5 and would prefer to keep it cheap. What are your suggestions?

Edit: thank you for all the suggestions, I'll probably be considering using Backblaze for backups, or perhaps seeing if I can scrounge up old unused disks from people I know. Thank you all again <3

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because the cheapest way would be to trust that it’s already backed up on the Internet

That's a shit load of downloading. LOL wow!

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I have 45TB of data and the majority of that is definitely downloaded media. They call us data hoarders for a reason.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oh sure I understand data hoarding. I was just thinking, to restore 50 tb from the internet is going to take more than a fortnight.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

It's literally downloading the same amount of data you would be backing up, and you won't be charged hourly for downloading it from the internet as opposed to a large storage service.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Imagine having to back up 50Tb to S3 :p
Not everyone has a symmetric connection.