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hooli42 | 1 year ago

If it does't have to be offline for long durations, software raid + adding a new drive every once in a while, and discarding failing drives is pretty foolproof.

AFAIK large data centers automate something like this.

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mshook|1 year ago

The issue with (software) raid is you have no idea if what you're copying isn't actually corrupted. If the filesystem isn't checksumed there's no guarantee.

orev|1 year ago

One can use software RAID5/6 to get the checksumming.