Title basically. I have like 7tb of data on my current raid array, and in the future, I plan to wipe it and make it ZFS, with 3 additional 7tb drives. I’d like to not lose all the data. I’m sure I can’t be the only one who has this issue. What do you guys use for temporary backup solution, while repurposing your HW.

My current server runs Ubuntu server bare metal. I’m thinking of running Proxmox, than VM of TrueNAS, for ZFS, sharing the storage pool across, what would than be a Proxmox cluster of 2 machines (potentially a 3rd in the future). I think that this is probably the best way.

  • brando56894@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I have like 7tb of data on my current raid array, and in the future, I plan to wipe it and make it ZFS, with 3 additional 7tb drives. I’d like to not lose all the data. I’m sure I can’t be the only one who has this issue. What do you guys use for temporary backup solution, while repurposing your HW.

    Realize I have no way to backup 10s of TBs, cry, destroy my ZFS pool and start over. 90% of my stuff is media which I can easily reacquire from Usenet in about 1.5-2 weeks of 24/7 downloading. So, not really a hassle, it just takes forever.

    If you have good upload bandwidth (like if you’re on fiber and have a 1 gig upload) IDriveE2.com has pretty reasonable pricing, it’s object storage (think S3) not block storage (any normal filesystem) though, but if you’re just using it for a backup that shouldn’t matter. I apparently got in right before they doubled their prices and got 50 TB for a year for $500. They have “on demand pricing” which is more expensive than their yearly plans, but it’s currently $4/TB/month so that would only cost you like $30…assuming you can upload all your data to their servers.