[mythtv-users] Options for Backing up Myth data

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 6 19:39:04 UTC 2010


On 6 December 2010 19:06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> Wow, the "2 TB Hard Drive Recommendations" thread has got pretty long,
> and seems to be drifting towards backup solutions, so I thought I'd
> start a new better-named one.
>
> The DLTs I use are not terribly practical for most folks, and even I'd
> like to find something better, in case my media source dries up.
>
> Somewhat related to something I asked a few weeks ago:
>
> What about using Blu-Ray disks for backup?
>
> BR recorders are getting below $100 (though probably not in NZ yet), and
> the media is starting to get more realistic.
>
> Granted optical media has some problems, but in the case of video files,
> may be "good enough". I could put up with an occasional dropout, or even
> a lost program, and could of course make two or even three backups of
> really important programming (if there is such a thing).
>
> Except for using hard drives, I'm not aware of any other storage
> solution that can store 50GB for a dollar or two.
>
> Are BRs "better" than using hard drives for backup, and if so, why or
> why not?
>
> I think Myth systems want two different types of backup, the programming
> itself, and the other bits of the system needed to restore the system to
> a working condition in the event of some sort of catastrophe.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
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A dollar or two?  If you can source BR Media for a dollar or two
congrats, in the UK I still have never found media for less the £6 for
a 25gb Disk (and I gave up even looking a while back now).  By far and
away the most cost effective way to back up your data is buy a 1TB
plus hard drive and dump the data onto it.  I run a Raid6 setup and
realised a long time back there are few, if any, effective backup
strategies that work once you start to look into the multi TB storage
range notwithstanding the storage issues it physically takes more then
24hours to back up all my library.

I do backup chunks every month or so and keep the other drives offsite
so I'll never have a totally destructive failure, however a day to day
strategy would frankly just work out either too expensive or too
labour intensive to be practicable.  RAID6 with a hot spare minimises
the risk factors and that's sufficient for me.


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