Hey guys, I’m setting up my NAS (openmediavault) and very much enjoying it! It now runs my Nextcloud and a couple of services. I got a mirror ZFS setup of two 8TB drives.

I got another two 8TB drives and am doubting whether I should add them as an extra mirror vdev, or create a new pool for extra backup. I’m not sure if that extra backup is necessary though, since I got a cloud backup already every day. My drives are only used 14% so I’m not even sure if I should already put them in the pool. What do you guys think?

  • @[email protected]OP
    1•7 months ago

    I understand, but I was thinking, since I have a cloud backup, if my drive(s) fail I cam still always recover, correct?

    • @[email protected]English
      2•7 months ago

      Cloud service may also decide that they’re tired of being in business and close without notice. Unlikely, but possible

    • @[email protected]English
      1•7 months ago

      What if the cloud server corrupts your data in transfer or worse shuts down its server without notification. It can and has happened.

      For example, I had a cloud backup went to get it and the server could no longer be found. That was with Dropbox mind you. I lost 10gb of important files because of it. Never trust just one source of backup. Always have a secondary just in case.