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How often do people on here do disk-health checks? I'm starting to get really anxious about data-loss
My NAS does the checks weekly for me and emails me. I read the emails. This is RAID 6, I can suffer losing any 2 drives so long as I replace them quickly once they fail.
I backup my NAS to an external drive, that is not kept plugged in, at least once a month.
I don't use cloud backup for this as it's... erm... maybe 15TB? Cloud backup isn't onerously expensive but the time to upload 15TB, keep it in sync, and then download it in an disaster recovery situation... well, that seems onerous. Cold storage external hard drives just seem way cheaper and better in almost every way... I have a Google calendar reminder that recurs monthly to remind me... but it's not that hard to remember, I do backups when I get paid so it's just one of the pay-day monthly chores to plug the drive in, run the sync script and then un plug it.
Eventually that drive will be off-site, it isn't at the moment. But for documents that I really care about all of that is in Google Drive, additionally sync'd to disk on the NAS and copied to the external drive.
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How often do people on here do disk-health checks? I'm starting to get really anxious about data-loss.