[Chester LUG] Home Backup Solution

[Les Pritchard]

Now that's a difficult one.  You could say that two disks are better if you
can spread the data across (so you at least get some back in a failure), but
you could argue that with two you're doubling the chance of a failure!

With it being a backup server, you already have another copy of it.  So it'd
be a very bad day if both disks were to fail at the same time!

Les

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:58 PM, M. Crilly <movedx at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> For my two internal media and software HDDs, I'd just use a simple rsync
> like your self and then encrypt them once they're on the NAS - wouldn't
> want someone hacking into my network and having access to all my legal
> (honest - it's all DVD and CD backups) media, movies, games, software etc.
> I'll review FreeNAS and see if it fits my needs - it probably does - and
> throw a cheap box together. I just need something that's relatively quiet;
> server cases are expensive these days but the noise polution can be
> countered with sound proof insulation.
>
> Something else that's on my mind. You guys reckon it's safer from a HDD
> failure point of view, to have two 500gB HDDs rather than a single 1tB?
> Obviously from a price point of view the single drive wins (or so I
> believe).
>
> - mc
>
> ---
>
>  On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:41:09 +0100, "Les Pritchard" wrote:
>  Hi,
>  HDDs seem to be by far the cheapest option for backups, but you are
> relying on disks.  Saying that, I've seen backup tapes fail quite a
> few times in the past.
>  I'm a believer in keeping it simple for backups, so I use a NAS box
> to store my backups.  I have a simple shell script that rsyncs my data
> over and maintains diffs.  For the NAS side of it, I use FreeNAS and a
> Solaris box with ZFS.
>  Les
>   On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:58 PM, M. Crilly  wrote:
>  Hi,
>  I was wondering - how do you guys deal with data backups at home?
> I'm
>  looking for a backup solution that can support a lot of data; a good
> 1-2tB
>  of storage would be nice for all my media and software, etc...
>  Any suggestions on hardware/software?
>  -- MC
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