What is the most reliable way to back up my anime? I have a bunch

>>62477440
dropbox

>>62477454
This might actually be the most reliable, but I don't want to pay out of the ass every year for 1+TB of file hosting.

inorganic(non-LTH) BD-R

make a bittorrent and just seed it. Eventually other people will get it and just store the small torrent files everywhere.

>>62477481
How is that related to what I'm asking?
>>62477501
Sounds pretty unpractical though.

>>62477551
It will last until you die.

>>62477588
Burning everything to BD-R discs?
Is it really the physical support that's the least likely to fail?
It would take a lot of time and discs to store close to 1TB of media.

Smaller (or big ones if you can afford) pairs of external hard-drives. Sony, Toshiba, or Samsung (or at least NOT Seagate or WD). Arranged in RAID. Or use them to make back-ups (as in the old school: copy everything to both disks, check they are actually equal, and keep them stored at least 500 mts. away from each other). There are no other answers...

>>62477641
You don't need to burn them all at once. 50 disc spindle is cheap.

>>62477440
>anime
Hi!
Go to hell.

>>62477440
NAS with >3 HDDs in RAID6

Buy two of those WD 8tb things that go on sale, shuck the HDDs and put them in a raid setup. 7.2TB of animu backup.

>>62477717
RAID 5 and 6 are bad jokes and anyone who suggests either should be taken out into the streets and shot.

>>62477440
It seems like HDD is the best choice, or there is none without drawbacks
>Cloud services
won't last forever, account can be banned for muh piracy, limited space, annually paid, years of up/down times depending of anime Quality. I'm guessing if you looking for such solutions, you don't store 720p 4GB total series, but rather 2GB per episode.
>BD discs
won't last forever + they actually take space + you actually have to have optical drive + it would be shit to put more than one series on a disc
>HDD
might break, but realistically how often do you break your HDD? Cheap GB/$, can seed from storage, can just add more HDD to the multi HDD case.

>>62477853
What are the most reliable HDDs currently on the market?

>>62477809
What would you use instead?

>>62477440
How many animes can you put on a HDD, just a ballpark figure is ok?

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>>62477713

>anime website

>>62478019
Depends on the size of your series
Just a dozen series of 25 episodes each take around 500GB of space for me

>>62477963
FreeBSD + ZFS + ECC + RaidZ/Raid10

>>62478022
>shitty meme

>>62477440
Yu sit ap a fileservur.

>>62477963
Standard RAID 1 for two, RAID 1E for three, and RAID 10(f2) for more than that. All implemented through bog-standard md.

RAID 5 and 6 come from a time where a terrabyte disk was the height of luxury - meaning most rebuilds were intensive but short. In 2017, a 4TB disk starts at $100. Rebuilding that will thrash the shit out of the disks that haven't dropped for at least a full day, more than likely hitting an uncorrectable read error. I'd argue that RAID 6 is just RAID 5 with the inevitable URE accounted for. I don't suggest ZFS's Z1/Z2/Z3 for the same reasons, although its on-line error correction does make it far less of a worry, and a viable option for people with a sizable budget.

Legitimately, for home use, something like HAMMER's mirror-stream or a script using inotifywait and rsync is enough. One for daily use with one as an online backup is more than most people would ever need.

I just use a NAS and stream everything with plex when I'm out.

>>62477440
Whats the best site to download shows?

>>62478918
nyaa.si

>>62478929
Thank you anon

Buy 2 boxes in 2 different datacenters, throw the shit on raid 6. You can also look into aws.

>>62477440
then it wasn't a backup

for some reason, a few people seem to think a backup is when you move data to a permanent storage location
this is not the case, a backup is a additional copy of data, if you move the data, it no longer exists at the original location, and you have not made a copy

>not using ZFS
What is wrong with you, anon?