Do I need to have separate my Plex server and my documents and other files?

[jrd680]

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.

[c3]

No need for separate server, can use a separate share.

[jrd680]

No need for separate server, can use a separate share.

Would I then ensure to back this up to the cloud to cover myself?

[ashman70]

You would want to have a backup plan for any important data, be that to an external drive, another server or the cloud, yes.

[c3]

+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.

[hernandito]

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.

 

 

[jrd680]

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.

[trurl]

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?

[hernandito]

Sure guys... I was thinking about movies & TV... Photos, work and documents are all backed up in a different way to a local pc.

[jrd680]

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?

[CHBMB]

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.

[Squid]

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...

[CHBMB]

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.....  

[hernandito]

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.

 

 

[kizer]

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.