Backup, Recovery, & Maintenance Howtos

Backup Howtos

• MergerFS & CrashPlan:
  • pooled storage w/ mergerfs
  • offsite backup via CrashPlan
  • N drives used for raw storage
  • Recovery of drives or individual files (versioned)
• MergerFS, CrashPlan, & SnapRaid:
  • pooled storage w/ mergerfs
  • offsite backup via CrashPlan
  • local backup and corruption detection/correction via SnapRaid
  • 1+ drives dedicated to parity (must be as large as the largest storage drive)
  • N drives for raw storage
• ZFS & CrashPlan (TBD):
  • pooled storage, corruption detection/correcton, redundency w/ ZFS
  • offsite backup via CrashPlan
• BTRFS & CrashPlan:
  • pooled storage, corruption detection/correcton, redundency w/ BTRFS
  • offsite backup via CrashPlan

Recovery Howtos

• MergerFS
• MergerFS & CrashPlan
• MergerFS & SnapRaid
• MergerFS, CrashPlan, & SnapRaid
• EXT4
• ZFS
• BTRFS
• MBR/GPT

Managing Bit Rot

• scorch
• SnapRaid
• Par2
• Btrfs
• ZFS

Maintenance Howtos

• EXT4
• Btrfs
• MergerFS
• SnapRaid

Setup Howtos

• Storage devices
• EXT4
• /etc/fstab
• MergerFS
• SnapRaid
• CrashPlan