I’ve become a data hoarder. AND I AM PROUD OF IT. But as a consequence of this purely personal choice (maybe), I will really need to invest in some workflows and hardware in order to keep growing my collection of movies, videos, books, comics, manga, pictures, games, etc. etc, AND also back them up safely in the event of any kind of disastrous event or whatever the hell will happen in the future idk.
There is the golden rule of 3-2-1 backups that I will follow, that’s for sure, as per thaaaaat:
- 3 copies of data,
- in 2 different forms of media (hard drive, cloud, cd, etc.),
- and 1 of them off-site.
As per this criteria, and considering that at the time of writing I have around 4TB of data, I will need 12 TB of storage, two of them hard-drives and one of them something that can easily be kept off-site, like cloud storage.
Considering long term usage, I will have around 10TB of data, that makes it 30TB of storage
It would be good to use an infinitely scaling cloud solution, and moreover I should be encrypting my data before pushing on any cloud storage purely because I have “private” data that I do not want to be used by any company. Also it would be nice if the service I end up using is cheap af.
Based on some quick research, I feel BackBlaze B2 is a good solution for the cloud part of things.
As for hard drives, I think I should go with buying one large capacity at least, maybe the WD 18tb MyBook, or something between 10-20TB. If in the future I have to “increase” copies, or something, I can buy another of the above.
Cloud can keep scaling so i’m good there. Cost is something I won’t be good with, but backups are important.
I can use restic to manage/create backups with encryption and de-duplicacy ( which means duplicate files won’t be backed up, but linked so that when restored the duplicate files are back)
Research Notes
- https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1ad2318/alternative_to_cloud_backup/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/16lfs3u/best_way_to_encrypt_17tb_of_data_before_sending/
- https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/020_installation.html
- https://www.backblaze.com/docs/en/cloud-storage-integrate-restic-with-backblaze-b2?highlight=restic