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What is your NAS software and what program do you use to backup from your NAS to the off-site providers?
I use Synology hardware for 2 out of my 3 home NASes and the software I use is Hyper Backup and Cloud Sync apps for the cloud providers and rsync for the servers.
Where's the tl;dr?
here
Too long; Don't read
Uh, no.
I actually read through the entire original post/novel; I feel accomplished. 😄 Thank you jsg for sharing: local backups are good. You're not alone in having this idea (and yes, tier with storage VPSes and ACD/GDrive/etc.).
My suggestion is to shuck WD EasyStore/Elements for $120/8TB or $150/10TB. They are equivalent to WD Reds, equivalent to HGST enterprise SATA drives.
If you're confident in your RAID game, pick up a couple dozen decommissioned NL-SAS 3TB/4TB drives for as low as $5/TB (really!), and go nuts with parity. 4U cases can fit 15x or even 24x LFF easily, and you can get a DAS like a SA120 or MD1200 if that's not enough. (After about 8-10 disks you'll probably want to split it up into multiple arrays / zpools.)
It is very achievable to have upwards of 100TB usable space at home, RAIDed and backed up.
Plain old RAID is obsolete... ZFS ZRAID (or any of a myriad of others) as you find in FreeNAS, will work great even on old and unreliable drives.
rsync for backups is long obsolete as well. Something like borgbackup for Linux (or Veeam Endpoint for Windows) will dramatically reduce the data transfer size, with deduplication and compression on the client end. Both zero-cost options. Both have data verification options that you can enable to alert you to corruption early.
And you'll have a much more reliable backup solution if you just rotate backups to three or more other VPS/Clouds/etc. Even if no one of them is reliable, all together you're sure to always have one good copy of your data that way. Your home NAS is a SPOF.
In conclusion: backups are good.
But only if you actually make (and verify) them.
Yep. I had only 45 minutes to get my UPS and ghetto NAS + drives upstairs when the floods reached my neighborhood.
I'm re-doing all my backup schemes in the aftermath.
The only thing I'm saving locally are high definition Linux ISOs of my favourite classics.
TL;DR
Thanked, just for the CF rant
I'm curious if you've ever received any dogecoin thanks.