Post #1512456
2026-03-09 22:13 UTC
Replies (5)
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@otterguy@woof.group 2026-03-09 22:54
@InfinityBear How much space do you need? Right now, my backups all go to a 1 TB USB 3 external hard drive. I've been meaning to set up a second mirror, either a another HDD or an SSD, or maybe just a 1 TB micro SD, now that those exist.
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@brad@toot.chez.gay 2026-03-09 23:14
@InfinityBear I use Unraid on an old HP Gen 8 microserver. It's not free but it also wasn't expensive. Before that I was using a hacky version of the Synology OS but their storage format is proprietary and I got twitchy about losing stuff if the hardware I was running it on died. I have 4 big harddrives in there with redundancy if one fails, I think that's RAID 5. But your important stuff should also be backed up somewhere else, remember! If you only have one backup, you don't have a backup.
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@bigrub@woof.group 2026-03-09 23:43
@InfinityBear for hardware, I got a little QNAP NAS. As long as you get one of the Intel devices it’s pretty easy to install whatever OS you want which is nicer than their default imo. It’s a nice mix of small and reasonably cheap (compared to building my own)
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@gayinundies@underwear.social 2026-03-10 14:29
@InfinityBear with Apple dropping support for their Time Capsule in the latest OS I got myself a UGREEN DH2300 2 bay NAS. Easy setup and works nicely in the background. Even able to monitor it in my Home Assistant dashboard.
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@Somewhat_Racc@yiff.life 2026-03-10 22:08
@InfinityBear I'm currently working on setting up my own server, using a mini pc I got from an old workplace that I have attached a HDD bay to (I'm also gonna use it for a game server eventually)