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I have a disk for local backups (that is the only purpose of that disk). I was wondering what would make it last longer: (social.graves.cl)

submitted 9 months ago by alvaro@social.graves.cl to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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I have a disk for local backups (that is the only purpose of that disk). I was wondering what would make it last longer:

- Keep it mounted to my server permanently (current solution)
- Keep it unmounted most of the time, mount it when I'm going to do a backup (either daily or every 3 days, I don't mind changing that) and unmounting after the backup is done.

What would be the best strategy?

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[–] passepartout@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

I recently bought a second external drive to do a backup of the first one. In the process I'm going to switch to btrfs. It can do data scrubbing which allows for self repair of corrupted data, which can occur if you leave a drive unpowered in a closet for some years.