What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data? - eviltoast

What storage software could I run to have an archive of my personal files (a couple TB of photos) that doesn’t require I keep a full local copy of all the data? I like the idea of a simple and focused tool like Syncthing, but they seem to be angling towards replication.

Is the simple choice to run some S3-like backend and use CLI or other client to append and browse files? I’d love something with fault tolerance that someone can gradually add disks to. If ceph were either less complicated or used less resources I’d want to do that.

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    9 months ago

    This is really cool. I ended up trying something similar: serving from a ZFS pool with SeaweedFS. TBD if that’s going to work for me long term.

    I would definitely be able to manually sync the SeaweedFS files with rsync to another location but from what I see it requires me to use their software to make sense of any structure. I might be able to mount it and sync that way, hopefully performance for that is not too bad.

    Syncing like that and having more control over where the files are placed on the RAID is very cool.