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  • 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 down

    Why 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).

  • It's a nice idea, but I'd still want to be in possession of a copy of my data.

    Can't argue with this, not everybody is comfortable with third party hosting. And perhaps rightly so.

    I encrypt everything stored remotely, not everybody has the knowledge to do this in a safe way. Its easy to make a mistake.

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