Raid/backups

[Kabob71]

Im looking to make a server type thing for my house.  Is their a type of raid that will take say 4,  1Tb drives that are in raid zero and copy the data to a 4Tb drive.  Or should i just right a batch file  that will back up  my data ever night. 

[leadeater]

17 hours ago, Kabob71 said:

Im looking to make a server type thing for my house.  Is their a type of raid that will take say 4,  1Tb drives that are in raid zero and copy the data to a 4Tb drive.  Or should i just right a batch file  that will back up  my data ever night. 

QNAP and Synology have this feature. I wouldn't use RAID 0 at all though. use RAID 5. These NAS's have a front USB port used for backing up the NAS, just plug in a 4TB+ disk connected via USB and run the backup task from the web management interface.

 

My preference is QNAP.

[Kabob71]

Alright thanks 

[Lurick]

If you're willing to pay you could also look at CrashPlan or something similar to have the data backed up off-site as well.

[Dark]

4 hours ago, Lurick said:

If you're willing to pay you could also look at CrashPlan or something similar to have the data backed up off-site as well.

Certainly not a bad suggestion but I've experienced some SLOW upload and download speeds with CP.  So much so that I no longer use their cloud storage.

[Guest]

14 hours ago, Lurick said:

If you're willing to pay you could also look at CrashPlan or something similar to have the data backed up off-site as well.

Otherwise if you're with QNAP (Maybe Synology too?) you can just order storage through Azure and ship it there. 2TB a month is $50-$60.

[r4tch3t]

Carbonite is a backup service, has automated versioned backup, it's about $60a year. No limit on space either