I have 8 4TB drives right now, 6 data, 2 raid backups using SnapRaid. I used a gui over it to create snapshots (elucidate i think). Never had to restore data thankfully. Did not want to mess with command lines. I also use DrivePool and configured some folders to duplicate. This setup is about 6 years old, maybe more.

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I am about to move my data to 4 or 5 16TB WD Golds…2/2 data/raid or 3/2. Any suggestions for software raid to replace SnapRaid?

  • HTWingNut@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you’re using Windows and Drivepool your only options are folder duplication in Drivepool and/or SnapRAID.

    Perhaps look at setting up a separate Linux based NAS.

    Never had to restore data thankfully.

    You should do a trial restore periodically, even if just a small sample size, otherwise how do you know that it’s actually working?

    • abba77@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      True, should do some testing.

      1. If I were to look at Linux based NAS, any suggestions.

      2. If I did stick with SnapRAID, is it still an active project? Can’t tell version release dates.

      Thanks.

      • HTWingNut@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        NAS is wide open full of options. You can get one off the shelf like a Synology or just build a PC and use that as your NAS with a NAS OS like OpenMediaVault, UnRAID, TrueNAS…

        SnapRAID is still plenty active. Just check their GitHub. Last update was 12.2 August 2022.

  • Pvt-Snafu@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Well, first of all, raid is not a backup, it’s about uptime. So keep separate backups if you need your data safe. As to raid, ZFS or MDRAID but i would go with ZFS raidz2 or RAID6 on that capacity.