Guinea
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- Aug 1, 2017
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Are you planning to have backup in the same pool? If so then just don't do it.
Instead use snapshots. (The snapshot suggestion makes sense if you want to protect yourself from ransomware or accidental deletions. This is what I assumed which might not be true :) )
Backup to the same pool gives very little extra safety but costs huge space.
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I am not really worried about deletion or ransomware. I am mostly concerned with hardware failures, which I guess is mostly covered by the zfs configuration if I remember correctly. I just don't want a scenario in which something gets corrupted and I lose all of my movies and have to start ripping them again. It has taken me years to chew through my collection and it keeps growing, so if I had to re-rip everything, it would be awful. I wasn't really planning anythig except adding another 8 hard drives to my existing pool to extend the storage. I don't know what my options are in terms of protection though. I have an extra 8 slots in my chassis that are unused at the moment, but it might end up being just more storage down the road.