My new motherboard actually has a RAID controller for the M.2 slots. I know people frown on hardware raid, but given it's the boot drive, it might just be easiest to count on it for daily operation and backup to the software RAID/something else every night.
Up until recently, the server mostly hosted a photo library and media library that didn’t tend to change very often. So a hdd in a fireproof save updated once a year was enough for me.
I guess I’ll have to come up with a better solution. What would you recommend for automatic backups? I’m trying to avoid 3rd party services.
Can you suggest a method for two-destination daily backups that don’t involve a 3rd party service? At the moment, I’m doing every six months or so on two sets of cold storage, one offsite.
Can you elaborate? (learning a lot at the moment).
My thought was to just copy over the whole database directory every night at like 2am. Though some of the services do offer built-in database backup tools which I assume are designed to do what you're talking about.
I understand all of that. Sorry I didn't explain it well.
I have a RAID6 for data and a single HDD for system files. I'd like to move the HDD to an NVME/SSD. I suppose I could make another RAID with an additional NVME, but I've found it easier to deal with booting off a traditional drive.
My solution for redundancy for the NVME is to just backup the bits that I need every night. These are usually just a few hundred megabyte database files. I'm curious if that's a typical solution.
edit: to clarify, it's a software raid with mdadm.
Yeah Tesla released a video of one of their PowerPacks burning back around 2017. It burned to the ground, surrounded by gravel. Nearest pack to it was like 20 feet away per their typical installation methods. No biggie.
I only ask because I've had a very good experience with eBay over the past five years of using it as an Amazon replacement.
I think one thing showed up damaged because it was poorly packaged, and they gave me a full refund.
One lister sold me bootleg gameboy carts (which I should have noticed from the listing if I did an ounce of research), and they accepted a free return for a full refund.
Probably the scammiest thing I see is people clearly just drop shipping from Amazon through eBay. Which is odd because it's often for the most random things (like random bolts or whatever).
Doesn't this just pass the issue to when the snapshot is made? If the snapshot is created mid-database update, won't you have the same problem?