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I do video editing for a small companly. At work I have an 8tb WD external usb3 drive for backing up footage. I edit off a seperate SSD. The 8TB drive is filling up and I need an upgrade. I'd like to go to something that has redundency and more space. Something in the 16tb+ range. It won't be editing off of it, so it doesn't need to be very snappy or do a lot of random access. I've watched a lot of linus' videos about NAS', but he seems to recommend a different brand in each one. Synology? Qnap? I don't know what to get. Is there a good cost balance to be struck between higher capacity drives vs more smaller ones? First and foremost, I want it to be dead simple and have good software. Second would be cost effectiveness. Advice?

It syncs on file change +9seconds

So, I could use Goodsync's system for versioning, but then I would have no backup of old projects, because they'd go away after 3mo when the rolling backup gets purged.

Yes, it is sort of both redundancy and backup. What I failed to mention in my original post, is that the hdd is larger than the ssd, and as the ssd fills up and I have to delete old projects off of it, they remain on the hdd as a backup. So, basically it's a hack that's (mostly) getting the job done, but I wanted to move to a more robust system. I just don't know what exactly to move to.

Looking for some help and recommendations here. I'm a video creator, so data backup is always a concern. Occasionally, something gets deleted that I needed, so here's my current solution. Here's what I'm using now: I have an external usb3 ssd that I edit off of, which is plenty fast. Then I use a software called Goodsync to automatically watch for changes on the edit ssd and continuously makes a copy an external hdd as a backup. The files make it over within minutes, so the backup is plenty fast enough for me. Typically, this isn't human-proof, because if I delete something, Goodsync will propagate that deletion and now it's deleted on the backup too. So, I turned off "propagate deletions" so now it's human-proof, but the nasty side effect is that the size of the backup keeps growing and growing. This is especially problematic when I rename a folder, Goodsync will just make a duplicate folder with the new name next to the old one. Oof. What I've been trying to find, is a NAS solution that has a feature I believe is called "versioning." Basically, I'm looking for something like Apple's Time Machine. How it would work, is that the first backup would be the whole file structure, then subsequent backups would only be the changes to the original to save space. Now, here is where the Human-proof part comes in, I would want the versions to be a rolling backup that reaches back a 1-3 months into the past where I can retrieve anything I've deleted. After 3 months, I want the versions to delete themselves. Also, I'd like the "time travelling" between versions to not be a total hassle. On top of this, I'd like to a system that is pretty fast (I do edit video after all) Does anyone know of a software or hardware that does this? I'm open to any and all suggestions. Also, if I'm thinking about this wrong, or approaching this wrong/barking up the wrong tree, please let me know that as well. Thanks in advance! C.T.

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