jrd680 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Hey all, noob here, I'm planning on using UnRaid extensively for Plex. That said I'm curious if I need to have a separate server for my documents and pictures that I don't want in Plex. I'm sure others have done the same or had a similar problem. Quote Link to comment
c3 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 No need for separate server, can use a separate share. Quote Link to comment
jrd680 Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 No need for separate server, can use a separate share.Would I then ensure to back this up to the cloud to cover myself? Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 You would want to have a backup plan for any important data, be that to an external drive, another server or the cloud, yes. Quote Link to comment
c3 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 +1 on the backup You'll find that pretty everyone agrees you need a backup for anything you want. There are just too many things that can go wrong when you only have one copy. Quote Link to comment
hernandito Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 Cloud for movie backups is not practical for me.... I have over 25TB of media.... would take forever to back that up.Thus I SOLELY rely on dual parity for data loss. I have lost stuff before, but somehow I manage to reacquire the important stuff. Quote Link to comment
jrd680 Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 Cloud for movie backups is not practical for me.... I have over 25TB of media.... would take forever to back that up.Thus I SOLELY rely on dual parity for data loss. I have lost stuff before, but somehow I manage to reacquire the important stuff. I'd be more willing to not backup movies and tv shows to the cloud but ensure backups of my other stuff. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 9 hours ago, hernandito said: somehow I manage to reacquire the important stuff. My criterion for ranking how important something is starts with whether or not it can even be reacquired. If you lose the family photos, how are you going to reacquire them? Quote Link to comment
hernandito Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Sure guys... I was thinking about movies & TV... Photos, work and documents are all backed up in a different way to a local pc. Quote Link to comment
jrd680 Posted April 11, 2017 Author Share Posted April 11, 2017 Sure guys... I was thinking about movies & TV... Photos, work and documents are all backed up in a different way to a local pc.Do tell,how? Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 On 07/04/2017 at 2:55 AM, trurl said: My criterion for ranking how important something is starts with whether or not it can even be reacquired. If you lose the family photos, how are you going to reacquire them? That's the only thing I really can't afford to lose. Anything else I can live with or without tbh. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 20 minutes ago, CHBMB said: That's the only thing I really can't afford to lose. Anything else I can live with or without tbh. Coming from the experience where I have lost all the pictures (many years ago), trust me when I say that you do not want to deal with your wife during that contingency... Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 My wife is laid back, but if that happened, there'd be two things on the menu that night for dinner. My right nut and my left nut..... Quote Link to comment
hernandito Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 3 hours ago, jrd680 said: Do tell,how? Nothing fancy... I have in one of my Windows machines an Event Scheduler that copies everything from my unRAID documents share to a local hard drive. I guess I could set up a Crashplan to be safe... but I am lazy about those things. I will put on my to-do. Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 I have a small Toaster style NAS on my network. Dlink DNS-323 that I copy from my unRAID server my Home Videos, Photos and other small important can't ever be replicated items. Quote Link to comment
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