Hello,
I’m wondering what the best practice for “mixed requirement” backups would be.
For example my current setup contains “mission critical” data like family albums, personal files, source code, etc, where I’m doing a BACKUP to an External HD and doing a COPY to Backblaze B2, and unless space ever becomes a problem, I have no plans to ever PRUNE either storage location.
At some point I’d also like to backup some less important data, for example a CD collection ripped to FLAC. At this point in time I don’t want to back up to the External HD, but I would like to back it up to B2, and unlike the “mission critical data”, I only ever want to keep the most recent revision of this data so will be using PRUNE.
If I understand what I’ve read, I don’t think it will be an issue to have one B2 storage location that is accepting both a COPY from the external HD as well as a BACKUP of the CD collection. Nor will it be an issue to specifically PRUNE the CD collection without also pruning the “mission critical” data.
But I’m wondering if there would be any drawback to creating a second B2 bucket/storage location for the CD collection backup (and eventually additional backups that also don’t need revision history)? I understand there wouldn’t be any deduplication between the buckets/storage locations, but the type of data going to each location is unlikely to benefit from that anyway.
Thanks,
Rick