I used to do something similar, but recent viruses have taken to destroying
files in all online storage devices (then charging a bitcoin ransom for the
recovery key, which may or may not work). I have thought about investing
in a tape drive (which is ironic given my employer :) but in practice I
just keep a USB disk offline, and bring it up occasionally to do the
replication. The problem with rotating storage is that it needs to be
spinning to keep working, so I can't leave it in a drawer and expect it to
work. There were some good deals on 64G USB sticks last week, but I didn't
buy any since I don't have a good plan for using them.
Anyway, given the state of viruses, I would definitely recommend keeping a
solid-state backup - flash, or DVD, or an offline disk - rather than
depending on a system that uses Windows shares.
To the original post, Synology is a good choice for low power, low noise,
high configurability, reasonable cost and reliability. If you roll your
own, I have to agree with Dan that FreeNAS is the way to go. If you are
willing to lose some abilities, many of the 802.11ac routers have USB ports
that will accept a USB drive (or even multiple drives) and expose Windows
and NFS shares.
Merry Christmas to all,
Tim
Thanks Don for the synchronicity tip and Tim for the heads up about
online storage. Is the online storage a problem with linux also? I
am assuming so because most of the web servers are linux.
Is the online storage also a problem wiht the larger providers like
google and Microsoft?
I see synchonicity is available for Linux also. I am overdue for
hardware replacement as my windoze boxes are P4 or worse. When I get
some newer hardware, I will probably try the synchonicity for Linux,
because at that point, I am going to dump windows, except maybe for
one 2003 server as a transitional concession.
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