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Even so. Mirroring stuff at home doesn't increase redundancy that much. Burglars steal computers, laptops and NASs. If you have a fire, flood or theft, expect to lose your NAS as well as your other devices.
I pay Digital Ocean $5 per month for 250 GB of remote storage, which I replicate everything important and irreplaceable to on a nightly basis. This buys me peace of mind that should my home storage be fucked, I'll have a copy.
To be honest, even this is a legacy arrangement as I don't tend to store anything locally now and am moving to a cloud to cload backup arrangement. Surely the ideal endstate is to not have any data stored at home at all rather than mess around with NAS devices?
The arrangement I am gradually moving to is all data being on Digital Ocean storage, with a nightly snapshot to an OVH storage container. My google docs are bundled into that too. Costs me about $12 per month I think and I get to swap out PCs without worrying about copying data.
Stonehedge-
What are you guys storing that is TBs in size and needs to be replicated?!
Nothing in TBs, I'm probably under 250GB in total, my wife might have a chunk for her business(es). I'll also be a remote rsync destination for my brother (who might be 250GB or so), and possibly my other brother, and my neighbours, etc. 3TB is about the minimum with a 4-drive NAS so that'll do nicely for me.
Even so. Mirroring stuff at home doesn't increase redundancy that much. Burglars steal computers, laptops and NASs. If you have a fire, flood or theft, expect to lose your NAS as well as your other devices.
Indeed. Hence my plan:-
NAS = main backup with redundant disk(s)
external HDD = on-site backup in case NAS dies
rsync to brother's NAS = backup in case house burns downWhy a NAS rather than just a couple of external HDDs?
- More than one computer to back up so connecting an external HDD to each and every machine each time is a pain
- Also useful to have a simple always-on computer as a central store/host for various things
The NAS can also be used as a central store for things I don't need backed up, e.g. holding movies for streaming to laptops, etc.
To be honest, even this is a legacy arrangement as I don't tend to store anything locally now and am moving to a cloud to cload backup arrangement. Surely the ideal endstate is to not have any data stored at home at all rather than mess around with NAS devices?
It's a nice idea, but I'd still want to be in possession of a copy of my data. I'm not ready to trust it all to the cloud (or multiple clouds for the data that needs to be backed up).
- More than one computer to back up so connecting an external HDD to each and every machine each time is a pain
Greenbank
Surly it's just about scalability. Or that 1TB is only marginally more expensive than 500GB (edit: actually few seem to sell anything less than 1TB).
As an eg iirc my back up external HDs have been 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB. Each time I've paid about the same price, and been driven by price point rather than storage requirements