NAS + Cloud?

[copenhagen69]

So I will be getting a NAS soon and was curious if cloud services would be a good/safe option for an offsite backup? Since we all know NAS/Raid is not a secure backup, as far as making sure you dont lose everything.

• Plain old Crashplan for ~$50/year will back up anything and seems to be popular with a lot of people
• Google Drive on a business account--$10/mo normally, but can be found for quite a bit less

In this day an age I just have a lot of issues with companies wanting to keep my data. I dont really trust them with it ..

Thoughts?

 

[John Naylor]

We gave up our NAS (after 6 years) for a simpler "pair of drives" in my man box.

Set it up and RAID 1, but one of the drives would occasionally go on vacation. So broke the array and just mirror the drive with a backup utility twice a day. At the end of the day, it also backs up to a drive in a docking station. Two drives alternate ... one comes back and another leaves each day.

I agree with your concerns, all my data is proprietary and copyrighted. It also includes "sensitive client data" ... I dont want that in any 3rd party's hands.

 

[copenhagen69]

We gave up our NAS (after 6 years) for a simpler "pair of drives" in my man box.

Set it up and RAID 1, but one of the drives would occasionally go on vacation. So broke the array and just mirror the drive with a backup utility twice a day. At the end of the day, it also backs up to a drive in a docking station. Two drives alternate ... one comes back and another leaves each day.

I agree with your concerns, all my data is proprietary and copyrighted. It also includes "sensitive client data" ... I dont want that in any 3rd party's hands.

Why did you give up the NAS option? Too many failures or what? I’ve debated just having a couple extra drives in a docking station that rotate backing up like every other day/week or so. However, the appeal of being able to lose one drive and not lose data is great to me. Plus the NAS would replace a big pc Lenovo Xeon server I have now. It takes up a lot of room under my desk too and the NAS I could stick in a closet or on my desk and it would look kinda cool too.

 

[Jetster]

Depends on how much data. I have about 8 Tb and a on line back up just isn't practical. I just use a cold back up from my NAS. What NAS you getting?

 

[copenhagen69]

Depends on how much data. I have about 8 Tb and a on line back up just isn't practical. I just use a cold back up from my NAS. What NAS you getting?

I’m deciding between synology DS918+ and the DS1618+