Fileserver for Web Development

[Danielnr]

Hi all,

 

I'm a web developer running my own business (just me) and my primary tool is a 2017 macbook pro. Keyboard aside, the laptop works well, however I always worry about my and in turn, my clients data corrupting, backups etc. I use Time Machine within an isolated network attached to an older Synology NAS (with 2x3tb in mirror), which seems to backup well. However, about once every 2-3 months it pops up a message saying it needs to rebuild the time machine backup, deleting the old one. My main concern is if the Mac fails (anything apart from the ssd), then as with all modern apple products, my data is screwed as I can't remove the drive. I worry that my time machine backups are also being corrupted, and as I have never needed the feature before!

 

I run all my design files out of the dropbox sync folder, but any local development work I do is on the laptop as Dropbox has a million file limit and I hit that mighty fast (besides the index was unstable and took days to re-index).

 

My question here is, what would be the best and most affordable way of working directly off a file server in a raid setting that gives me redundancy? Is it best to get a better NAS drive? Or use an older mac mini with attached storage? Or something similar?

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Dan

 

""EDIT"" has anyone got any experience with something like https://www.resilio.com/individuals/. Is this method reliable? I could install it on the NAS, then just run everything locally?

[karsnoordhuis]

id suggest the nas-ish route with (like you said) nas or enterprise drives. if you were to build it yourself form an older machine you could also use it as a dev server and run the app on it instead of your macbook