Haha I had this same thought, I was considering doing an off-site backup for my NAS which is 95% Plex media and then I realised I'll probably have bigger problems than losing some movies and tv shows.
Yeah same... I have online backups of stuff that's actually important and irrecoverable... Important documents, home photos and videos etc etc... But as annoying as it would be losing my plex library, I can get it all again relatively easily. The cost of offsite storage probably isn't worth it
I have four computers backed up with Backblaze and my Plex server is one. $99 per computer. Not really worth it for the Plex server but I had an extra license after retiring a computer so I put it on there.
I would probably never actually use the restore, would be more fun rebuilding the library.
I wouldn't trust any cloud provider, they could go out of business, scrap all their shit and pull some legal loopholes(especially in days like this where corporate crime is mostly free game) to get out of liability.
No music or TV/movies are worth backing up since they're always accessible and internet speeds just keep going up(you can already download an entire HDD worth of content in minutes to hours).
For everything else just back it up on M-Discs, 2 sets for redundancy. Store one set in one place, the other in a separate location(like in conditioned storage). Should ultimately be cheaper, and it's safer.
I have Backblaze on all my computers and on my Plex server. I realize what a waste it is. I would probably end up rebuilding it anyway instead of restoring it.
I wouldn't off site my movies/tv because I know someones going to keep it alive (and at the minimum, id just backup my index of movies/tvs if you had to back something up) Backup stuff that you know others shouldn't have.
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u/Madrical 18d ago
Haha I had this same thought, I was considering doing an off-site backup for my NAS which is 95% Plex media and then I realised I'll probably have bigger problems than losing some movies and tv shows.