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You just finished setting up all your services and it works fine - how do you now prepare for eventual drive failure? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know that for data storage the best bet is a NAS and RAID1 or something in that vein, but what about all the docker containers you are running, carefully configured services on your rpi, installed *arr services on your PC, etc.?

Do you have a simple way to automate backups and re-installs of these as well or are you just resigned to having to eventually reconfigure them all when the SD card fails, your OS needs a reinstall or the disk dies?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
HA	Home Assistant automation software
~	High Availability
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
Plex	Brand of media server package
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage

8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

virtualize the machine with proxmox, use proxmox backup server, load vm on new system if you get catastrophic failure on the machine running the vm currently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Routine backups of the VM's and raid disk for the hypervisor running them. If the box hosting the backups went screwy there's a problem but with something like 20TB of space used copies off-box are a bit cumbersome. To that end I just manually copy the irreplaceable stuff to a separate external storage and wish the movies and stuff good luck.

It ends up with a situation though where I'd have to lose both the disks on the hypervisor and if that happened several disks on the NAS (12 disks in a ZFS pool with each vdev being a mirror pair) or for the whole pool to get screwed up to lose the VMs fully. Depending on the day I might lose up to a week of VM state though since they only do a full copy once a week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

carefully configured services on your rpi

I have a back up on an SD Card waiting for the day the SD Card fails. Slot it in and reboot

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

configs are backed up I can spin up a new container in minutes, I just accept the manual labor. It's probably a good thing to clean out the spiders and skeletons every now and then.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

I eat a cyanide tablet. Drive won't fail on me if I'm dead. Taps temple

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