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ScottBurson on July 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Storage for Photographers, Part 2

I considered a NAS, but I had a Linux server already, so I just upgraded it with 6 4TB drives and installed ZFS [0]. I'm using raidz2, which is doubly redundant like RAID-6. For long-term backup I just got a BD-R drive with M-Disc support [1]; haven't tried it yet.

This still makes more sense to me than trying to store it all in the cloud.

[0] http://zfsonlinux.org/ [1] http://www.mdisc.com/

lutorm on July 23, 2015 [–]

This is my solution, too. And then I push periodic zfs snapshots to an off-site server. It's not fast given my upload speed with TWC, but it's doable.

stavros on July 23, 2015 | [–]

Try attic, you'll thank me.

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