Posts by Gershy13

Quote from KM0201

Easiest way to do that, is to set your "main" drive (Drive A).. this will house all your data for services, etc. Then set up a "backup" drive (Drive B)... set up a simple rsync job in the webUI to backup Drive A, to Drive B. Getting the timing down correctly can be tricky.
I run several rsync jobs automatically. I have one job that backs up to a 2nd drive on my NAS... that runs every 8hrs. I personally leave the delete trigger off, that way if something is accidentally deleted, it stays on my 2nd drive. Once or twice a month I'll log in and enable the delete trigger and run the job manually, to bring Drive A and Drive B completely in sync.

Every day at 3am, a job runs that backs up my NAS's "Drive B" to a remote single drive OMV at my parents house. This job has the delete trigger enabled at all times.. so it is always in sync with "Drive B"

I have another job that then runs at 4am, that backs up just movies/tv shows from my Mom's, to another another remote single drive OMV at my sisters. That also has a simple SMB share, and she uses an android TV box and Kodi to watch whatever stuff she or her kids want.

It was simple to set up and once it's up it pretty much runs w/o any input from me.

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So what would happen when i want to expand and add a drive for more storage? Would i need to buy 2 instead of 1 and have 1 as the backup drive and the other as main 2?

Quote from Morlan

For example having one main drive and doing automated incremental backups to a second backup drive.

Then what would happen when i expand my drives and want to add more storage? Would i just have to get a bigger backup drive/multiple? Could i switch to raid 5 or snapraid at some point? and is that a bad idea?

Quote from tkaiser

If you're not a business then the best type of raid for you is NO raid. It's wasting disks for almost nothing especially with disks in the TB region. RAID was great for businesses or other entities who need data availability two decades ago. Times have changed and parity RAID with large disks is simply fooling yourself.
If you want to spent efforts/money on redundancy then go for data safety (backup) instead.

What options are there for me then? I just want something that will protect my data to a certain degree (i will still have backups on an external drive of the really important data...) And yes im not a business, just a standard home user who wants to build a home server...

Quote from henfri

Use single drives and combine them to one with mergerfs.
How many stories have we read here of people having lost all data because one of their ten drives of a pool died.... This does not happen with my proposal

I dont mind what it is, im just trying to figure out which is the best option that allows me to have redundancy, but without having to literally have another drive mirroring the main one, as that will be a pain when upgrading, each time ill need to buy 2 drives when i want to add more storage.

Hi, So im looking to build a home server/nas soon, and im planning on using OMV.
But im not sure what type of raid i should use... I want to have some sort of redundancy, but im only going to be starting out with 2 drives, and then slowly expanding as my storage needs increase...
Whats a good solution for me? Im planning on building a system with a i5 4590, 8gb ddr3, q87 motherboard, 2x 4 or 6TB Segate Barracuda drives.

Tips?

Thanks
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