Hi guys!
I currently do my backups to a NFS share on TrueNAS. But since the TrueNAS also sits in my home, I cloud sync it up to OneDrive from there.
In the future I would like to switch to PBS instead, mostly just for fun of trying out new things. I have an unused i5 8th gen NUC and was thinking about buying a single 2TB nvme drive for that thing and put it in my friends home. I would use ext4 and that single disk.
Here is my internal dialogue, would love to hear some sanity check from you guys
- One disk is fine. Software and hardware RAID also can fail. Also, I will probably never use that backup. And the chances of my PVS failing and that drive failing at the same time, are almost non existent.
- ext4 instead of ZFS. ZFS does some potential double writes with ZIL? Since PBS does integrity checks on its own, I don't really need that from ZFS. I can't really profit from ARC when I have a startup and shutdown timer in BIOS.
- It has to be an SSD instead of a HDD, since there are so many small files read to check for changes.
I currently do my backups to a NFS share on TrueNAS. But since the TrueNAS also sits in my home, I cloud sync it up to OneDrive from there.
In the future I would like to switch to PBS instead, mostly just for fun of trying out new things. I have an unused i5 8th gen NUC and was thinking about buying a single 2TB nvme drive for that thing and put it in my friends home. I would use ext4 and that single disk.
Here is my internal dialogue, would love to hear some sanity check from you guys
- One disk is fine. Software and hardware RAID also can fail. Also, I will probably never use that backup. And the chances of my PVS failing and that drive failing at the same time, are almost non existent.
- ext4 instead of ZFS. ZFS does some potential double writes with ZIL? Since PBS does integrity checks on its own, I don't really need that from ZFS. I can't really profit from ARC when I have a startup and shutdown timer in BIOS.
- It has to be an SSD instead of a HDD, since there are so many small files read to check for changes.
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