Something i haven’t seen posted here yet, but worth say over and over again.
Murphy’s law says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong… but with the 3-2-1 strategy in place, your data always survives.
Something i haven’t seen posted here yet, but worth say over and over again.
Murphy’s law says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong… but with the 3-2-1 strategy in place, your data always survives.
Outside my depth but I’ll give it a stab. Identify what data is important, (is the full 42Tb needed?). Can the data be split into easier to handle chunks?
If it is, then I personally do an initial sneakernet to get the fist set of data over. Then mirror different on a regular basis.
Only ~400gb of it is absolutely critical at this point, but losing my 8.1tb of screen recordings would hurt. The screen recordings folder on its own grows on average 19gb per day. I prefer not to split it into smaller chunks because that increases maintenance workload in monitoring and keeping the backups working. My current backup strategy uses zfs send to copy incremental snapshots from the main host to the backup host, so maybe I could just get a secondary backup host and put it offsite?