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ReadyNAS 2304 - AWS S3 Backup process
Four 10T drives were setup in RAID 10 with 18+T useable. There is 8T worth of Data in the drives. Started the Amazon S3 backup process and it took 5 days to backup 4 T out of the 8T. If I man...
Sandshark wrote:
The absolute best, of course, would be to have both. A local backup for quick recovery and cloud for a major disaster.
I agree on that. I use a combination of local and cloud myself - though in my case the cloud backup is running on a PC that has the NAS volume mounted as a network drive. Many of the cloud backup solutions don't support that.
You could look into egynte - their solution runs on the NAS. No idea on their solution (or pricing) compares with amazon cloud, but there are folks here who use them.
I agree with the assessments. I will probably get a 2nd NAS located in a nearby building still on our fiber backbone. The cost of the 2304 is low enough, and I like the idea of having a hardware backup for the case (not just the disks). So when the Netgear discontinues the 2304 and I have a hardware failure I won't have to shop on EBay for a replacement lol.
I will probably do the cloud backup as well, if I can keep the long term cost down. Looking at Backblaze and will check out egynte as well. It's a good idea to have everything off site. But my most likely disasters are theft and fire. We are in hurricane country (Houston) but there's alwlays a warning so I'll just take the NAS with me, cover up the rest of the equipment, and evacuate. I've done that a few times already. Not reallly worried about tornadoes and floods, but with the cloud backup I won't be tempting fate.
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