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I had RAID, snapshots, and backups, but one thing almost cost me everything
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When I first got into self-hosting and invested in a NAS that could serve dedicated storage pools to all my devices, I built what I thought was an impressive setup. It's RAIDZ2 across six drives, with automatic ZFS snapshots on a schedule, and a separate drive to which all my most important data is synced every night. I was going for an infallible storage array, but was missing one glaring component.