On 7/9/25 3:04 AM, Piotr K. Isajew wrote:
On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 05:17:51PM -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
Fancy filesystems are not a prerequiste for keeping data
intact. In fact, in a home NAS setup, the added complexity
might even cause more problems than it solves.
Agreed. FreeBSD/ZFS combination seems tempting due to "fancy
features", but I've seen complex solutions fail in past and it's
easier to recover from simple setup failure than complex one.
Backups at appropriate frequencies and simple shell scripts to
verify checksums have served well for a lot of people on
OpenBSD for many years.
the more I think about this, the more I'm biased to this
approach.
Daily kept for weeks, weekly kept for months, monthly kept for years
7094, 1401, 360....
What do people use for long term/archival storage?
Tape, while traditional, can be very expensive.
Should I replace my large pile of portable USB drives?
geoff steckel
