> pay out of pocket for a few hundred gigs of storage 2T Seagate Barracuda on Newegg right now: 89.99 2x2T (redundancy) would then be 179.98. An out of pocke

> pay out of pocket for a few hundred gigs of storage 2T Seagate Barracuda on Newegg right now: 89.99 2x2T (redundancy) would then be 179.98. An out of pocket expense, yes, but not terrible. Your cable tv bill (if you can cable) likely equals that in 1.5-2 months. Plus, until a drive fails, this is a one time, single out of pocket expense. If you are paying crashplan 9.99/month, then after 18 months you are "out of pocket" enough to have bought a pair of drives. 2T would be sufficient to backup what you list above with ample room for growth at the moment. And it is yours... You can do whatever you want with it, with no restrictions as to what some company wants you to do. > What works for you, and what would you suggest as a solution for me? Three 2T WD red's, in a Linux md raid5 config, with rsnapshot as the backup tool. About 2 months ago, a laptop I'd put BTRFS on had the filesystem corrupt beyond recovery. Dump, reinstall Linux, rsync back over the backup data from the local backup server (the 2T WD's in Linux md raid5) and the machine was back up and running again as if nothing had ever happened to it.