Any point in backing up or redundancy for this?
Any point in backing up or redundancy for this?
Hey guys. Im using jellyfin to watch movies on my server and im looking at getting a 8tb hdd to start off. I was wondering if it would be stupid to have no redundancy because I kinda figured it would be pointless to me since if the drive was to fail I could just retorrent the movies again? My OS (proxmox) is on a 500gb nvme ssd.
I am collecting hard to find art house stuff. So I have redundancy, but no backup. If your collection is easy to redownload I totally would use the interwebs as my backup.
1I wrote a bunch of scripts that for each file I got from bittorrent, it removes it from the daily backups, and instead has a log of what file goes where and what torrent it came from. I've actually had to use it's restore function a few times because I'm trigger happy and sometimes ruin my server. One of these days I will clean up the script and make it portable...
1For pirated movies, I meaaan... linux ISOS, is fine not to have backups cause as you said you can re-download them. My SSD with all my jellyfin media died recently and it kinda sucked but at least I didnt lose anything important.
I guess most people in this sub that have redundancy with their media is because they rip the movies out of blu-rays they bought rather than download it. I also save copies of my ripped (legally) videogames.
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