I'm curious to know how people backup their TV Show and Movie content. I'm not currently backing anything up on my Windows 10 Channels server, but I want to implement a backup plan at some point here soon. Hard drives fail and I would hate to lose my ever expanding library to a corrupt drive.
I'd love to hear from those in the community that do regular backups. In particular, here are some of my questions...
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Do you do backups manually, or use an automated backup software? If so, what software to you use?
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Do you backup the original files, or do you convert to another format (i.e. H.265) to save space as part of the backup process?
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Is Channels even compatible with converted files, or must they remain in their original format?
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Do you backup TV Shows and Movies, or just one or the other?
I have a 12TB main drive and don't want to buy a NAS (and another 12TB drive), otherwise I understand that Raid could be an option. What I would ideally like to do is backup all my movies to an external USB 3.0 drive. I would like all of the movies to remain on the backup drive indefinitely. I would also like to backup my TV Shows, but I wouldn't want to keep them for long. It would be great if the TV shows would remain on the backup drive until such time I deleted them from my main Channels DVR drive. Can backup software automate this function?
Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.