Backing up 10Tb Drive, Advice and options wanted Options

[miggles]

I've got a machine with a 10Tb RAID5 drive array, being used as a shared storage space for the family. As this is storing lots of family photos and videos, I was looking at creating a periodic backup of the drive, in case the worst happens and something causes the drives to fail (as unlikely as that might be). I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what I can use.

Ideally, it would be a low maintenance solution (ie I don't want to be having to swap DVDs every day to continue the backup), and not too costly to impliment.

Any ideas?

[aliali]

First you need to sort through the data and see if any can be safely excluded from the backups. Stuff like file downloads that can be downloaded again.
Considering the size you are stuck with multiple external or hot swappable hard drives. That's it.

[twents]

Use another 10tb drive? or and online backup solution lololol

[Xen]

I've got a machine with a 10Tb RAID5 drive array, being used as a shared storage space for the family. As this is storing lots of family photos and videos, I was looking at creating a periodic backup of the drive, in case the worst happens and something causes the drives to fail (as unlikely as that might be). I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what I can use.

Ideally, it would be a low maintenance solution (ie I don't want to be having to swap DVDs every day to continue the backup), and not too costly to impliment.

Any ideas?

Unfortunately with that size you would be looking at Buying more hard-drives and swapping them all the time, tape or DVD's.

There's no real way around it.

IMO clean up the drives as much as possible, if there is something rarely accessed pull it off and archive it on DVD.

You mention it is 10Tb... how much is actually used?

There is another method i used to use "Back in the day"... have a LAN party with your friends and forget that you shared the entire drive... You will have multiple sorted backups by the next day.

[aliali]

if there is something rarely accessed pull it off and archive it on DVD.

Actually you should probably burn to multiple DVDs for redundancy, then store the disk properly with at least one stored off site. Oh and the DVDs should be verified after burn and new disks should be burnt every few years.
:-)

There is another method i used to use "Back in the day"... have a LAN party with your friends and forget that you shared the entire drive... You will have multiple sorted backups by the next day.

Sneaky.
:-P

Actually an option I forgot is online backup from companies like Carbonite
http://www.carbonite.com.au/
Yes 10 Tb is going to take a long time to backup but it is doable and if you can cut down what actually needs backing up it becomes more viable.