I haven't looked at this in depth, but crash plan looks interesting. You could 
theoretically put the backup NAS at a remote location (friend, $work) and get 
semi-continuous off site backups. I think you can seed the backup server 
locally before relocating it. They also have an EC2 AMI to run a backup server 
on AWS.

Personally, I only have 1TB on my ReadyNAS, which in turn is just the Time 
Machine archive of our desktop/laptop. Once a month I backup the ReasyNAS to an 
external drive, which I then stash in my desk at work until next month.

It was easy to justify the expense with my comptroller (wife) when she nearly 
lost her iPhoto library a few years back.

-- Mason Turner (mobile)

On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Mark Dennehy <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 21 July 2011 15:05, Chris Ess <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why not use external drive(s)?  This is the solution I'm currently 
> looking at for my home fileserver.
> 
> Same issue as with a second NAS really.
> I'm thinking here of a box that starts off with 4x2Tb drives in either 
> RAID-5+hot spare or RAID-6+hot spare, with further disks being added in later 
> (I tend to have a lot of HD video files from training). So that's either 2 or 
> 4Tb to have to backup from day one. Which means a 1-2 disk NAS/external drive 
> to start with, and which would have to be taken off-site to be secure... 
> well, you get the idea. Awkward and expensive.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Dennehy
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