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I think the best practice is to use the following backup scheme: - 1st line: your computer's HD. - 2nd line: your SOHO NAS (very cheap these days, I ha

by atmosx 12y ago

I think the best practice is to use the following backup scheme: - 1st line: your computer's HD. - 2nd line: your SOHO NAS (very cheap these days, I have a 2 + 2 (mirror) TB NAS) - 3rd line: remote backup The sensitive info should be encrypted at your computer, possibly with an encryption software that is easy to use everywhere (e.g. GPG). I can't think of any real-life scenario where these 3 copies get destroyed simultaneously. Now the real problem here is upstream. In 3rd world countries like mine (Greece), we have an avg upstream of less than 100 kb/s. So if my pictures/video/pc/whatever backup is > 50 GB, uploading it anywhere is a pain.

CPLX 12y ago
Not to totally derail this thread, but what do you recommend for SOHO NAS brands and models for this type of use case?
- atmosx 12y ago
  Anything that supports RAID1 would do for me. I had a ReadyNAS in the past but now I have a cheap 2-bay D-Link[1] with 2 + 2 TB of Western Digital HDs installed. The important thing is the PSU which should support both power supply AND ethernet[2]. This setup is for just family pictures, documents and some family video that is all backed up via TimeMachine. My code is on bitbucket/github. Some work documents are on Google drive too. ReadyNAS are way better especially the ones with INTEL cpus, since they can transcode video on the fly for some media players that require such a thing (e.g. you could stream video to your iPhone/iPad). But these are expensive and I don't need this kind of functionality. If I had more than 5-10 TB of data to backup then I'd for a custom tower, 8 GB of memory, Gbit Ethernet of course and + FreeNAS (ZFS + FreeBSD network stack). [1] http://amzn.to/1CSugSb http://amzn.to/1CSugSb [2] The ReadyNAS got toasted through ethernet by a thunder!!! [3] http://www.freenas.org http://www.freenas.org

by atmosx 12y ago

CPLX 12y ago

Not to totally derail this thread, but what do you recommend for SOHO NAS brands and models for this type of use case?

atmosx 12y ago
Anything that supports RAID1 would do for me. I had a ReadyNAS in the past but now I have a cheap 2-bay D-Link[1] with 2 + 2 TB of Western Digital HDs installed. The important thing is the PSU which should support both power supply AND ethernet[2]. This setup is for just family pictures, documents and some family video that is all backed up via TimeMachine. My code is on bitbucket/github. Some work documents are on Google drive too. ReadyNAS are way better especially the ones with INTEL cpus, since they can transcode video on the fly for some media players that require such a thing (e.g. you could stream video to your iPhone/iPad). But these are expensive and I don't need this kind of functionality. If I had more than 5-10 TB of data to backup then I'd for a custom tower, 8 GB of memory, Gbit Ethernet of course and + FreeNAS (ZFS + FreeBSD network stack). [1] http://amzn.to/1CSugSb http://amzn.to/1CSugSb [2] The ReadyNAS got toasted through ethernet by a thunder!!! [3] http://www.freenas.org http://www.freenas.org