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Which RAID should I select for BEST backup?
Hello all, I just got my ReadyNAS 316, installed two 6 TB WD Red drives, and (with the help of the awesome support techs) got everything up and running. Now I need to figure out which RAID level/ty...
I back up shares (to backup NAS, not external USB drives, but the idea is the same). I've had a NAS for some years, and currently have ~20 shares (a couple less). The main issue with backup is that you can't let a share get bigger than the backup drive. I've had to reorganize my backups occasionally but in general it hasn't been much of a problem. Organization on the NAS takes a little thought, but with volumes of the size you are planning you will need some folder structure anyway.
When you back up the full volume, of course you need a destination drive that can hold the full volume. Once you overflow your initlal 6 TB volume size, that won't work (since there are no 12 TB USB drives). So you'll end up share-by-share anyway.
Well, it's one of two choices for the external backups.
- Create shares (which I am guessing are similar to folders) right now and backup each share. That is, have a "share" folder called Pictures 2015 that I will backup, and so on. This allows for smaller logical chunks to be backed up. Although I am guessing this is the messiest as far as organizing goes.
- Do what you suggest and make a multi-drive backup once every-so-often. How challenging would this be?
Thanks again for all the help!
I back up shares (to backup NAS, not external USB drives, but the idea is the same). I've had a NAS for some years, and currently have ~20 shares (a couple less). The main issue with backup is that you can't let a share get bigger than the backup drive. I've had to reorganize my backups occasionally but in general it hasn't been much of a problem. Organization on the NAS takes a little thought, but with volumes of the size you are planning you will need some folder structure anyway.
When you back up the full volume, of course you need a destination drive that can hold the full volume. Once you overflow your initlal 6 TB volume size, that won't work (since there are no 12 TB USB drives). So you'll end up share-by-share anyway.
Yeah. My wife is a photographer, so each year will be a share. Thank you so much!
MathemAddicts wrote:
Yeah. My wife is a photographer, so each year will be a share. Thank you so much!
Sounds sensible. Shares can contain subfolders (so you could create a subfolder for every month if desired).
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