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Spent roughly 1k on a nas system at home which gives me 6tb of redundant storage. It's raid 0 (2x6tb) with 2 separate backups done nightly/weekly, one in the h

Spent roughly 1k on a nas system at home which gives me 6tb of redundant storage. It's raid 0 (2x6tb) with 2 separate backups done nightly/weekly, one in the house and one done in the garage. The speed of access is unmatched to any cloud system, in the long run it'll be cheaper than online (assuming £10 per month for 6tb of storage). I made the plunge after trying a few cheaper options plus cloud. I'm happy with the investment and haven't looked back, it's been rock solid. Synology. The same system could probably be had for less now, the nas box also acts as my docker server which has been running without issues for 2 years. Most importantly it's not a full time job maintaining it, I spend maybe an hr a month if that checking up on it. Comes with duplication detection and everything you'd need without learning shell can be done using the nice gui. It's just nice having a system anyone can use, no shell scripts in place at all. It just works.

radlad 5y ago
I use a NAS for backing up my photos I take on my camera (i.e. my Lightroom catalog.) I also back these photos up to Backblaze B2. I use Duplicati for this. On my phone however, I simply send my photos to Google Photos. Actually, Lightroom exports end up there too. This makes it easy to see and share photos with family and friends. I would love to hear how you view and share your photos using your NAS. Are you using something like OwnCloud or NextCloud? Or does Synology offer this type of software built-in?
- CommanderData 5y ago
  Synology has a built in app called Photos. It's relatively new (DSM 7), it has facial recognition which to be honest works half well at best. It might be the shear number of family photos we have but it does struggle to 'learn' as we tag people. Provided the app is installed you can easily share the photo through WhatsApp or others on your phone. In terms of public access / link I have disabled this however its possible to expose through a cloud service (Synology cloud). The photos app works well when exporting however I wish it has a backup feature however the flip side is my family wouldn't want all their personal photos sitting on our family nas.
orev 5y ago
RAID0? Assuming that’s not a typo, RAID0 could not be a worse choice for backups. You’re at least doubling your chances of losing all the data, when you typically want to have something more resilient than a single standard disk for backups.
- CommanderData 5y ago
  My mistake, RAID 1.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
    Easy way to remember: It's called RAID 0 because that's how much data you get back if something goes wrong.
boringg 5y ago
I did the same thing with a WD My Cloud (6 tb redundant RAID 1) man was that a terrible decision. One failed and then the other eventually did as well (within 3 years) - not to mention it was painfully slow and cost maybe 600 USD. I've since been able to recover them through another external drive casing but I haven't found a replacement idea on what to do.
- lostlogin 5y ago
  Wasn’t My Cloud also hacked rather severely?
  - boringg 5y ago
    Quite possibly - it really was a bad product and the interface to connect your local storage to a cloud front end was bad and super slow (which is why i didn't use it).
brandonio21 5y ago
I have a similar setup (also Synology), but only backup to Backblaze nightly. What's housing your garage backup? Another NAS or something else? If it's another synology, did you get the same model as your primary or something less powerful?
- CommanderData 5y ago
  It's an old laptop that turns on with a plug timer and shutdowns after it's finished copying hyper backup off the second server over SMB. The timer runs every Sunday at 5am. It's never failed. I should probably add it as a secondary destination in hyperbackup however need a nice way to autorun an rsync server on Windows. Then I could combine the alerts in Synology should something fail.
  - brandonio21 5y ago
    Ah, interesting - and what's the second server?
ClumsyPilot 5y ago
> Most importantly it's not a full time job maintaining it, I spend maybe an hr a month if that checking up on it. Exactly, I want my family to be able to get the photos if I suddenly get hit by a bus. Noone is gonna be able to deal with your custom server/cronjob/etc. crap in case anything happens to you. Over the past decade I have migrated back and forth between cloud storage and a NAS. Both of them need upkeep, either to keep footing the bill or to check the drives and replace them if they die. I think anyone who is serious about this needs something you can put in a closet/safe/bank vault and a decade later it will still work, and the best bet is optical disks, they were suppose to last hundred years +, but that industry is kind of on it's last legs and we were never sure how accurate the longevity claims are.

radlad 5y ago

I use a NAS for backing up my photos I take on my camera (i.e. my Lightroom catalog.) I also back these photos up to Backblaze B2. I use Duplicati for this. On my phone however, I simply send my photos to Google Photos. Actually, Lightroom exports end up there too. This makes it easy to see and share photos with family and friends. I would love to hear how you view and share your photos using your NAS. Are you using something like OwnCloud or NextCloud? Or does Synology offer this type of software built-in?

CommanderData 5y ago
Synology has a built in app called Photos. It's relatively new (DSM 7), it has facial recognition which to be honest works half well at best. It might be the shear number of family photos we have but it does struggle to 'learn' as we tag people. Provided the app is installed you can easily share the photo through WhatsApp or others on your phone. In terms of public access / link I have disabled this however its possible to expose through a cloud service (Synology cloud). The photos app works well when exporting however I wish it has a backup feature however the flip side is my family wouldn't want all their personal photos sitting on our family nas.

orev 5y ago

RAID0? Assuming that’s not a typo, RAID0 could not be a worse choice for backups. You’re at least doubling your chances of losing all the data, when you typically want to have something more resilient than a single standard disk for backups.

CommanderData 5y ago
My mistake, RAID 1.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  Easy way to remember: It's called RAID 0 because that's how much data you get back if something goes wrong.

boringg 5y ago

I did the same thing with a WD My Cloud (6 tb redundant RAID 1) man was that a terrible decision. One failed and then the other eventually did as well (within 3 years) - not to mention it was painfully slow and cost maybe 600 USD. I've since been able to recover them through another external drive casing but I haven't found a replacement idea on what to do.

lostlogin 5y ago
Wasn’t My Cloud also hacked rather severely?
- boringg 5y ago
  Quite possibly - it really was a bad product and the interface to connect your local storage to a cloud front end was bad and super slow (which is why i didn't use it).

brandonio21 5y ago

I have a similar setup (also Synology), but only backup to Backblaze nightly. What's housing your garage backup? Another NAS or something else? If it's another synology, did you get the same model as your primary or something less powerful?

CommanderData 5y ago
It's an old laptop that turns on with a plug timer and shutdowns after it's finished copying hyper backup off the second server over SMB. The timer runs every Sunday at 5am. It's never failed. I should probably add it as a secondary destination in hyperbackup however need a nice way to autorun an rsync server on Windows. Then I could combine the alerts in Synology should something fail.
- brandonio21 5y ago
  Ah, interesting - and what's the second server?

ClumsyPilot 5y ago

> Most importantly it's not a full time job maintaining it, I spend maybe an hr a month if that checking up on it. Exactly, I want my family to be able to get the photos if I suddenly get hit by a bus. Noone is gonna be able to deal with your custom server/cronjob/etc. crap in case anything happens to you. Over the past decade I have migrated back and forth between cloud storage and a NAS. Both of them need upkeep, either to keep footing the bill or to check the drives and replace them if they die. I think anyone who is serious about this needs something you can put in a closet/safe/bank vault and a decade later it will still work, and the best bet is optical disks, they were suppose to last hundred years +, but that industry is kind of on it's last legs and we were never sure how accurate the longevity claims are.