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As much as I love Synology NAS, I wouldn't trust it for keeping what's essentially my entire life (email, photos, music, files, everything). The author has a ba
by dirktheman 13y ago
As much as I love Synology NAS, I wouldn't trust it for keeping what's essentially my entire life (email, photos, music, files, everything). The author has a backup system which involves two laptops, a workstation and a separate file drive. However, at the bottom he/she adds "I will probably add an extra external drive to the mix and try to keep that off site." My advice: do it. Now. Murphy's law states that a flood/power surge will hit your house as soon as pull the plug on your external storages.
I don't want the NSA to snoop through my email and family photos, but the fear of data loss easily trumps my fear of not having privacy. To me, that's the tradeoff for using public services like dropbox/Gmail: I get more redundancy at the cost of privacy.
- moocowduckquack 13y agofree cloud services!=backup
- dirktheman 13y agoNo, you're absolutely right. And I didn't state they are, nor that they are free. For backup purposes, I use my NAS, an external hard drive that I use off site, and Amazon Glacier for when things go really bad. (With Glacier, you pay mere pennies for storing gigabytes, but you pay a lot if you ever need the files). What I meant is that the author is so focused on privacy issues that he/she forgets about redundancy.
- jlgaddis 13y agoI currently backup to (encrypted volumes on) external USB drives at home. I just recently moved and now have much more upstream bandwidth (FTTH, yay!) so I wanted to do off-site backups as well. After careful consideration, I decided to occasionally make an "encrypted full backup" and then permanently archive those to Amazon's Glacier service. Edit: Just read your comment further down where you also mention using Glacier. Have you restored any data from it to test it out yet? If so, are you happy with it? Thanks.