Cloud backup they have a few integrated providers Things that I'm going to try out on the Synology: backing up my server (media files, documents, program installs, etc) 1 home built media server / DVR / shared drive w/ a 3-drive RAID Posted by This_Will_Be_Good at 8:33 PM on February 10, 2013īest answer: I also have a Synology and love it. So: Very happy with the Synology as the main hub, and very happy with Crashplan as my remote servce, and Amazon S3 as a secondary remote for a portion of the data.
I originally had it set to back up too often at first and I got charged $0.12, so I had to change that to back up a bit less. It was originally unencrypted and worked well and I had tested the restore ability there. I have not tested the Amazon encrypted backup much yet, though. I was able to open up Crashplan and restore the entire folder very easily. I somehow created an infinite loop of folders and the images seemed to disappear. I was playing around with Hazel on the Mac and tried to sort a bunch of image into subfolders based on date. I have been pretty happy with everything, and just had to test it out yesterday. I have not tried using my Raspberry Pi in the mix yet, but I bet I could pull it up over the network on the Mac and have it backed up as well. I have moved all my music to the Synology and that is now where iTunes sees its library, and you can use Synology's own Audio Station app to play music from it as well. I also use Crashplan to back up the Mac and the Synology.ĪND, I have one volume on the synology that is really important things - I have an encrypted backup running for that to Amazon S3 as it fits within their free 5GB and is really easy to set up on the Synology (the Amazon backup settings are built into the OS).
I have an HP laptop that also backs up to a separate volume on the Synology. I have a Mac that uses Time Machine to back up to a volume set aside just for its time machine backups on the Synology. Posted by Brian Puccio at 9:43 AM on Februīest answer: I have a Synology DS212J, and I have been very happy with it (I had asked a similar question on here a while back). That's what I would have done if I didn't build a Linux box. If you don't want a small computer with an Atom CPU or something, buy an appliance like Synology/QNAP, put four large hard drives (different batches!) in, call it a day. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux (which those Synology/QNAP devices are anyhow). (I know, I'm wary of the entire unlimited/overselling thing.) Pretend to be a Carbonite user and the first year is $50. If any hardware fails, you can do a local restore over a gigabit network, 1000mbit/s is worlds faster than 25 mbit/s.Īvoid a Drobo like the plague, the performance isn't there for the price and it won't work with my next suggestion.Ĭrashplan is $150/yr (if you sign up for a year) for up to 10 devices and unlimited storage. Rsync or rdiff-backup your Linux boxes to that. Speaking of the onsite solution, either get something like Synology/QNAP that lets you run at RAID 5 (or 6) so you can withstand a drive failure and pool the storage and then Time Machine your Macs to that. So an offsite backup system should back up not from your consolidated onsite storage, but from each device individually. If something goes wrong or gets corrupted on the primary backup, its mirror gets the same problem. posted by scruss to Computers & Internet (10 answers total) 20 users marked this as a favoriteīest answer: First, a backup of a backup is not a second backup. Swappable drives would be good are home/office NASs there yet for seamless redundant drives? I'm not looking to run a desktop machine as a NAS, as they're too loud and draw too much power. The NAS would be on our wired network, and powered through a UPS. I would like to have occasional online access to files should I need them when I'm away. I'm not wild about staying with SpiderOak while its de-duping and security is rather good, its pricing and cross-platform/architecture support isn't. I'm unlikely to be bothered to go through and clean them up manually. There's likely a ton of duplicate files on all of these. Likely has about 100 GB of stuff that's nowhere else Mirrors the music backup, and haphazard bits of everything else (when I remember). These drives are likely about to conk out any time now. A D-Link DNS323 two-bay NAS running 5+ year old 1 TB WD drives.Probably no more than 50 GB on all of them. Many little Linux boxes, from Raspberry Pis up to a ThinkPad, running various video/audio/multimedia/radio control applications around the house.An old Linux box with pretty much my entire (online) life from 1991–2010 on it (300 GB).An mp3 collection of about 300 GB, currently living on 6 year old USB drive connected to a SheevaPlug.Only locally backed up to a FireWire Time Machine. Backed up locally to a USB Time Machine (desperately, annoyingly slow) and mirrored to SpiderOak.
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