The NAS was adequate while I had a place to keep off-site backups.
Mainly, the NAS duplicated the data on a number of USB external drives,
so I could find what I wanted without having to hook up one drive after
another & search to find which drive actually had it.
I have a computer set up specifically as a Photoshop workstation. I
don't have the physical space to accommodate my scanners in the room
where the Photoshop workstation is located, so I have my scanners
attached to this computer. I used the NAS to transfer the scanner's
image files to the Photoshop workstation (which were then duplicated to
a second NAS dedicated to image files).
I have a Mac Mini set up as a digital recording studio. I kept the
projects I'm not currently working with on the NAS.
After burning DVDs or CDs, I kept the ISO images on the NAS in case I
ever wanted to burn another copy. When I was upgrading my laptop, I used
the NAS to temporarily store files & drivers that needed to be
reinstalled or updated to make Windoze 7 run.
Turned out almost everything (except the Windows7 for Toshiba files &
the DVD/CD ISOs) were duplicates of working files on another computer,
or USB drive, but I couldn't know until I was able to read the surviving
disk.
I'm currently working to build a Linux RAID 6 server. It's still in the
hardware acquisition phase. Duplicate files I used to keep on the NAS
will go on the server & the server will be regularly backed up to Crash
Plan.
On 7/15/2016 5:31 AM, Henk Terhell wrote:
When my NAS with RAID1 stopped working, probably due to hardware
failure, I bought two cases for the disks and recovered the data
connected to a Linux desktop.
Both disks now work fine with a sync program. For me a NAS is not a safe
storage solution.
Henk
Op 2016-07-08 om 21:46 schreef John:
I've finally managed to get the EXT2 software reader to work & am
recovering stuff on the remaining good drive from the NAS box. Mounted
it "read only" so maybe if I can get the NAS box working again I can
still use it.
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