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I've got a Synology DS213j [1] with two WD Red 2TB [2] drives in RAID-1. All machines in my house run some sort of Linux, thus they are encrypted and backed up

I've got a Synology DS213j [1] with two WD Red 2TB [2] drives in RAID-1. All machines in my house run some sort of Linux, thus they are encrypted and backed up daily with Deja-Dup (which is just a front-end to duplicity [3]). The Synology has netatalk configured out of the box so it can be seen in the network as an AFP share and can be used as a destination for TimeMachine backups (I'm not using it in that way but a couple of friends who use Macs told me it works well). It also has a package to backup data stored on the Synology to Amazon Glacier, and that is something I'm going to enable soon in order to improve redundancy (and to have an off-site copy of my data). On top of that some of that stuff is also spread between Dropbox, Drive, Github and thumb drives. I might have like three to five copies of each file at any given time. - [1]: http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS213j&lang=enu http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS... - [2]: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810 http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810 - [3]: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

zedpm 13y ago
Yep, the Diskstations are super slick appliances. I'm also planning on using my Diskstation's offsite backup support, though I'm not sure if I'll be uploading to S3, Glacier, or Rsync.net. In the mean time I've plugged a Fantom external HDD[1] into my Diskstation and have set it to run backups there. [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IYJX20/ref=oh_details_o05_s01_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IYJX20/ref=oh_details_o...
MattJ100 13y ago
Another vote for Synology NAS. I have the same device in the same configuration. I love it lots, and have ended up using it for far more than just backups. My previous setup was two large USB drives, and doing everything manually (when I remembered and/or could be bothered to), but I almost lost data this way.
dakrisht 13y ago
Another vote for Synology here. Have been using them for a good 6 years now. I think I might have had one of the first DSM setups. Just solid NAS products. Upgraded recently to the DS213 and the WD RED 3TB disks in RAID-1. Running all sorts of services from SMB, AFP, UPNP, Surveillance, Backups, Etc. Performs flawlessly. Incredibly fast, DSM is an elegant UI (and powerful) and just couldn't be happier for all my wireless/wired client. I backup the Synology once a month to a standalone 3TB disk via eSATA for even more redundancy.

zedpm 13y ago

Yep, the Diskstations are super slick appliances. I'm also planning on using my Diskstation's offsite backup support, though I'm not sure if I'll be uploading to S3, Glacier, or Rsync.net. In the mean time I've plugged a Fantom external HDD[1] into my Diskstation and have set it to run backups there. [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IYJX20/ref=oh_details_o05_s01_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IYJX20/ref=oh_details_o...

MattJ100 13y ago

Another vote for Synology NAS. I have the same device in the same configuration. I love it lots, and have ended up using it for far more than just backups. My previous setup was two large USB drives, and doing everything manually (when I remembered and/or could be bothered to), but I almost lost data this way.

dakrisht 13y ago

Another vote for Synology here. Have been using them for a good 6 years now. I think I might have had one of the first DSM setups. Just solid NAS products. Upgraded recently to the DS213 and the WD RED 3TB disks in RAID-1. Running all sorts of services from SMB, AFP, UPNP, Surveillance, Backups, Etc. Performs flawlessly. Incredibly fast, DSM is an elegant UI (and powerful) and just couldn't be happier for all my wireless/wired client. I backup the Synology once a month to a standalone 3TB disk via eSATA for even more redundancy.