Hi,I see a lot of times, people on here saying how long and how much time it takes to maintain a NAS.
I self-host on a NAS and it takes me 5 minutes per week.
The setup was a really high learning curve, but once that is done, it’s pretty easy IMO.
Am I missing something?
Do you have correct permissions, automatic updates, daily snapshots, weekly backups, and monthly scrubs? If so, that is about it for a NAS.
Pretty much all of that in my own way.
What is monthly scrubs?
Verifies the integrity of all stored data so that it can be corrected using the available parity/mirror data available before it gets worse.
TrueNAS has them by default: Creating Scrub Tasks | TrueNAS Documentation Hub
For zfs: ZFS - ArchWiki
For btrfs: Btrfs - ArchWiki
edit for qnap: RAID Scrubbing | QTS 5.0.x
QNAP has different tools that are, I believe, similar. I think I’m ok then. Thanks!
Also, good to know for when I’ll switch to an open-source NAS.
You tell us nothing about your system and ask whether you are missing something. How is anyone supposed to answer this?
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SkewedZeppelin answered. Thank you.
Backup NAS, complete with mirrored drives.
Think about this scenario: your hard drives burned down along with your entire primary NAS (like if you lived in California near the wildfires). Do you have a 1:1 copy elsewhere?
Bonus points if you can get that offsite.
Yes, but not offsite. I feel comfortable enough like that.
You can more or less safely place it on your close relatives/parents home…
I’m thinking about buying a safe instead. A waterproof and fireproof one. In due time 