u/withspaces

I've been running an Unraid server for about a year. It’s holding essentially all of my data (photos, personal projects, media, etc), so I want to get opinions on my backup strategy and how it can be improved.

At the moment, my build consists of two 12tb data drives, one 12tb parity drive, one 4tb drive thats out of the array for daily backups (its mostly app data right now but plan to use it for incremental backups for my project share). My backup is two 12tb drives that I keep in the office and take home once a month to backup my data drives.

I'm using a UPS, I run monthly parity checks and periodically run SMART checks on the drives.

I know I'm missing the "3"... and actually, also the "2" of "3-2-1" (this was a stressful sentence to write). But how is my setup so far? What are the biggest weaknesses and how can it be improved?

I noticed a lot of setups here run both SimpleUI and BookShelf. From what I can tell they’re separate plugins that each replace the start screen/library on their own. What’s the benefit of having both installed?

I’m using SimpleUI atm. Does installing both replace SimpleUIs library UI with BookShelfs?

I bought “Role Model” for a friend soon after I started it because I thought he would particularly like that one. He hasn’t read the other books yet but had seen the show. He’s not typically a reader so I want to start him off with something he’d enjoy.

Now that I’m almost done with the book I’m second guessing it since there are so many references to other characters.

What do you guys think? Has anyone else started on the 5th book?