Whats your backup solution ?

[bydus]

I was wondering what back up solution you guys use an whats most reliable:

 

- backup to usb drive 

- Raid1 NAS mirroring network

- Raid1 inside the pc case

 

I currently have synology nas drive but wanted to put the disks inside my case and make it raid1 - is this an ok solution or NAS network drives are safer because they are based on linux ?

 

[seabass9990]

I think raid1 NAS network would be most reliable, but its up to what you can aford. but definitly not a usb drive, data loss and such with those things

[Geekazoid]

My back up solution is my external Western Digital 1TB HDD if that's what you're asking.

[Syntaxvgm]

I recommend raid 1 in local pc IN ADDITION to incremental backups on another machine, preferably at another location to save you from natural disaster, robbery, ect. 

My method? 

Backup all super important files on a million USB drives, rely on my technical expertise to recover semi important files from broken drives that were too big for me to backup. -.-

I need money for a proper backup solution bad. Seriously. I even used data forensics tools at college at one point. 

[Speedbird]

To my WD 2TB ext. HDD every month.

[Captain_WD]

I was wondering what back up solution you guys use an whats most reliable:

 

- backup to usb drive 

- Raid1 NAS mirroring network

- Raid1 inside the pc case

 

I currently have synology nas drive but wanted to put the disks inside my case and make it raid1 - is this an ok solution or NAS network drives are safer because they are based on linux ?

 

 

Hey,

 

I tend to back up all my media (valued movies and series, photos, music) on two different places. I use simple External drives (I have two) which I keep at my place, and I also use a bigger enclosure with a couple of drives in RAID1 at another location (my parents' house - they also use it) wich a second backup just to make sure I keep everything. I value my data.

 

Captain_WD.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

I run raid 0 on the NAS and use 2.5" external drives for backup.

[EmeraldFlame]

I was wondering what back up solution you guys use an whats most reliable:

 

- backup to usb drive 

- Raid1 NAS mirroring network

- Raid1 inside the pc case

 

I currently have synology nas drive but wanted to put the disks inside my case and make it raid1 - is this an ok solution or NAS network drives are safer because they are based on linux ?

 

Only 1 of those is even considered backup

- Bakup to a USB drive - For the average person, buying a large USB 3.0 drive and doing backups to it will be fine. However, in the case of disaster (fire, flood, or robbery) you would still be out of luck.

- RAID 1 NAS mirroring network - RAID 1 is redundancy NOT backup

- RAID 1 inside the pc case - Once again RAID 1 is redundancy NOT backup

The difference between RAID 1 and a real backup:

Backup: A snapshot of a file or drive from the time the backup was taken. If files are deleted, removed, or corrupted, this can always be restored.

RAID 1: 2 drives that are an exact copy of each other so if 1 drive fails the computer can continue to function. However, if a file is deleted, removed, or corrupted it can not be brought back from the other drive as it was also deleted or corrupted there too.

Personally I do this:

All computers in my house do a full backup in January of each year. Every month after that they do a differential backup.

These backups are saved on my home server which has 12TB (9TB Usable) in RAID 5, so that if a drive on the server goes out, it can be rebuilt.

The server then uploads all backups to CrashPlan, a cloud based storage provider specifically for backups. 

 

This means at any given time, my computers backups are stored in 2 locations with fault tolerance.

[wpirobotbuilder]

I was wondering what back up solution you guys use an whats most reliable:

 

- backup to usb drive 

- Raid1 NAS mirroring network

- Raid1 inside the pc case

 

I currently have synology nas drive but wanted to put the disks inside my case and make it raid1 - is this an ok solution or NAS network drives are safer because they are based on linux ?

I assume you mean that the RAID 1 inside your PC is dedicated only to backups?

 

That's an okay solution -- if your PC dies then you risk losing your backups dying as well, but you also don't have to buy extra hardware to use those drives (like a NAS or another computer).

 

Having two backups is important -- one online (for example, network storage in RAID 1/5/6/10/50/60/Z1/Z2/Z3) and one offline (external hard drive that is never plugged in except to do backups. The reason for this being that you can do real-time backups to your online storage (say, every 12 hours for good data integrity), but if you have a power surge and your online backup dies, you'll at least have an offline backup to restore from (maybe once or twice a week, or if you absolutely need to back up certain files NOW).

 

If you want extra protection, I recommend remote backups. You can get okay service with CrashPlan (relatively inexpensive), but I really recommend using Dropbox or Google Drive. Only use these kinds of services for very important files. like schoolwork, important personal documents, anything very valuable to you. Don't back up your movies to remote storage -- it'll take forever and really isn't worth the hassle of doing a multi-TB recovery on an internet connection.

 

If you have important stuff to back up remotely (say, wedding videos or other important media files), you can get 100GB of storage for $2/month, or 1TB for $10/month. That's not bad, all things considered, and the storage is going to be very reliable, very available, and perform okay.