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Question

NAS solution for home network backup

by cg-its Dec 15, 2013 7:14PM PST

I'm after some opinions on tried and tested NAS solutions for home network backups.

I have a friend who is lousy at backing anything up, he has an external HDD and I could get him to back up to that with either Windows 7 backup or some bespoke software, but I feel he would forget to plug the drive in!

Perhaps a RAID 1 NAS with 2 x 2TB SATA drives would be appropriate, with some software that automatically backs critical folders up to the NAS, and from NAS to cloud.

What is best, affordable, tried and tested, and what software was used?

I will then propose we do this, but if costs are prohibitive we'll revert to either Windows 7 backups on a usb disk or Acronis backups on a USB disk.

Cheers,

Conrad

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Clarification Request

Why RAID 1?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 16, 2013 1:38AM PST

It's not like it's a backup to the most common failures (the delete button.) And many routers allow you to add some USB HDD. Even here I have a 500GB small form factor USB HDD and it holds yet another copy of what I can't lose.

There are those that are movie collectors and they burn up disk space but ask yourself why you need to back that up?
Bob

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