I'm grappling with this issue as well. Personally speaking, I am looking at backup to disk. I would either add a set of external SATA drives to the NAS, or have another NAS box backing up the primary NAS box.
I don't want to have to worry about swapping tapes, bad tapes, lost tapes, etc. On the other hand, you'd be surprised, many of the "cloud-based" backup services are very efficient and operate at the block level. I don't know what speed you have, but those may not be such a bad idea. (I have the speed, but I don't fully trust "the cloud" with my data... yet...) Mike -- http://www.lostinthedetails.com On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Mark Dennehy <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > Finally, I'm getting around to sorting out a server for home, to act as a > NAS, a print server, and so forth. > What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at having a few Tb of > storage that I'd like to be able to back up, and I was thinking tape; but > swapping 80-odd DAT tapes would be daft and yet even LTO-5 seems a bit small > (and pricy for home use). In Ireland, we don't really have the broadband > network infrastructure to do backups over the net, so tape seems an obvious > choice, but I'd love to get some more experienced opinions on this. Anyone > got any recommendations or thoughts? > Thanks, > > -- > Mark Dennehy > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- http://www.lostinthedetails.com
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