I'm curious how this can be done on a budget: How do you back up Terabytes of data?
I've got about 5 TB at home now, and I plan to build a RAID 6 array using an Areca controller. That is my plan so far. I realize that running RAID 5 or 6 is no substitute for backing up my data. But I have no way to back up that much data. Right now my data is spread over different hard drives connected to different computers. There is some redundancy there, but there is not much organization. That is why I want a large array to put all of my data in one place.
Any ideas?
The only one I can come up with is to build a second RAID 5 array at some point in time to mirror the first RAID 6 array. Mirror might not be the right word, but what I mean is to have a second multi-TB array and have everything copied there. This redundancy would allow me to have a backup... and would reduce the chance of failure from a motherboard or controller card failure.
I look forward to your response.
I've got about 5 TB at home now, and I plan to build a RAID 6 array using an Areca controller. That is my plan so far. I realize that running RAID 5 or 6 is no substitute for backing up my data. But I have no way to back up that much data. Right now my data is spread over different hard drives connected to different computers. There is some redundancy there, but there is not much organization. That is why I want a large array to put all of my data in one place.
Any ideas?
The only one I can come up with is to build a second RAID 5 array at some point in time to mirror the first RAID 6 array. Mirror might not be the right word, but what I mean is to have a second multi-TB array and have everything copied there. This redundancy would allow me to have a backup... and would reduce the chance of failure from a motherboard or controller card failure.
I look forward to your response.