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

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Is it data you would trust in the hands of random strangers on the internet? If so, I can easily store 50TB for you, as long as it's temporary.

Oh, and I have various storage solutions in various jurisdictions, so if you have any preferences as to places you do NOT want to store it, that's something you need to hilight.

[–] 8263ksbr@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

... this is odly nice of you. Sorry, but are you really willing to trust a random internet stranger to store up to 50TB of data on your machines? The data could be literally anything and might put you into trouble 😵‍💫

No offense, just curiosity

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

what's the difference to storing it on a company's platform?

sign a thing that says there's nothing illegal in it. done.

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also, encrypt before sending. Plausible deniability is a real thing.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm not OP (and I'm not offering this service to the public) but anything I'm ever hosting for anyone else should be zero-knowledge encrypted. I don't want to be able to know what's in other people's data. THAT makes me uncomfortable. As long as it's encrypted, and I don't have the key, it's just random bits as far as I'm concerned.

I don't care what you use your random bits for. None of my business.

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yup! Based.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

If it's encrypted how should I know?