I currently have a secondary pool (with raidz2) that I was originally going to use for my important documents, such as storage for Paperless-ngx, as raidz offers corruption detection and repair. The pool is encrypted.
However, I’m concerned about rebuild times (it’s a pool of 4 22TB drives). Is btrfs a better choice for this use case, or should I just go with raidz like I originally planned?


Like you said: RAID is not a backup. If it’s import follow at least the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies on at least 2 different media, 1 of them off site.