I’m thinking of backing all of my family’s digital assets up. It includes less than 4 TB of information. Most are redundant video files that are in old encodings or not encoded at all and there are a lot of duplicate images and old documents. I’m gonna clean this stuff up with a bash script and some good old manual review, but first I need to do some pre-planning.
- What’s the cheapest and most flexible NAS I can make from eBay or local? What kind of processors and what motherboard features?
- What separate guides should I follow to source the drives? What RAID?
- What backup style should I follow? How many cold copies? How do I even handle the event of a fire?
I intend to do some of this research on my own since no one answer is fully representative but am appreciative of any leads.
The two top of the line tools for making backups are restic and borgbackup (in my opinion). They would allow you to easily compress and encrypt some local directories to another computer or cloud service. I personally use borgbackup with external backups at borgbase.com