On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:07 AM Dave Ihnat <dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Synology NAS--usually a 2-disk unit--using Ironwolf NAS drives. (You can
use WD Red depending on performance, price and preference.) Size to the
client's server(s), mount using iSCSI. StarTech (or other vendor--find
your sweet spot) USB 3.0 HDD docking station, and a rotation of bare
Ironwolf drives. Back up to the NAS during the week, and once/week to
the current removable HDD. Client only has to remember to swap one disk,
once/week; most will do that.
You get backup in depth, much more reliable drives, and a stable and
reliable primary backup. And yes, it costs some money, but far less than
tape.
This is my home backup solution (so $$$ matter).
- Refurbished SFF from ebay ($100 3 years ago, Core2 Quad)
- Maxed out memory (8GB $40)
- 1TB HD upgrade ($80 at the time?)
- CentOS 7 with BackupPC 4.X (from my COPR, CentOS is on 3.x)
I don't do full system backups, it takes up too much space and I don't want to backup stuff I can just reinstall.
Currently have 6 hosts backed up (including the server itself) with the system and backups all on one drive (it only has room for 1 3.5" drive) I have 1.7TB of data compressed and deduplicated to 158GB.
I'll then do a tar.gz export of critical stuff from time to time or for family pictures burn them to Bluray (25GB discs) and store them in the fire safe. I bought some 50GB discs but I have never gotten them to work. Always creates coasters which switching layers while burning.
Thanks,
Richard
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