I have hard disk drive with Storj data that works perfectly. I have scheduled a rsync backup each 6 hours to switch to another disk in case of fail. I searched a lot at this forum, but the question is not resolved exactly. The answer normally is: you can’t use backups in Storj. I understand the motivation of this answer. If you try to load a backup from last week, or month it haven’t sense. But from few hours? I can reduce the schedule to 4 hours or modify these parameters.
It could be possible in case of a catastrophic issue? (hard drive die)
Use the other disk like a secondary node, could be possible, but I am exploring alternatives.
Backups won’t work for any node. Instead start another node on this other drive. If a drive fails you lose that node. All nodes behind same IP will be treated as one. You can search forum for “multiple nodes”.