On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 5:50 PM Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been looking at a few software solutions based on another thread here > but so far nothing has excited me so recommendations for what makes sense for > high reliability home backup is of great interest, especially if it helps me > somehow in cleaning up the backups after deleting stuff on my main machine on > purpose and therefore not needing it on the backup.
It is probably going to stretch your budget, but you should look into distributed filesystems like CephFS/MooseFS/LizardFS. The latter two at least should run fine on hardware like a Pi4 if you aren't doing too much IOPS. You could actually run them on as little as a single host, which would probably be cheaper than a commercial NAS though really no better. The big advantages is that you aren't limited by the drive capacity of a single host, and you have redundancy at the host level. That is, you can pull a plug on any host and the whole thing just keeps running. Again, I realize this isn't exactly what you asked for. IMO this is the long-term direction storage is trending towards though. I can't vouch for the hardware requirements for Ceph, but that can scale incredibly well and is pretty-much the future. I've heard it isn't so great on just a few hosts though. -- Rich
