With my new NAS, it was also time to rethink my backup strategy. I used to have a simple strategy on the NAS itself:
- Stored all data at a RAID-1 array
- Once a day, ran a small rsync script that would create a snapshot (at a separate disk), using
--link-dest
to only store the actual changes (and hardlinks to unchanged files) - Once a week, used rclone to sync the backup to Backblaze B2 (and had Backblaze configured to perform deletes after 6 months)
My data is as follows:
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