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acronis and readynas. will it work for my backups?
i'm going to ditch mycloud for possibly the 422. the number one thing i want to do with NAS is use my acronis to regularly make an image of my C drive then do incremental backups of the data drive. i...
thanks for the detailed reply. one thing caught my eye. you said raid sometimes fails. i thought the point of raid was if one drive dies the other one is ok? this is the only reason i'm getting a NAS. i had a hiccup on my mycloud and just wanted more protection now.
the plan is back up the 1TB laptop regularly (for the record i do C drive images 2x a week and data at various intervals depending on whether its video files (not often) or personal data (daily incremental)
ideally id love to move all video off laptop and to the raid, 400 gigs of it. i had assumed it would be doubly safe on the raid. or even if i dont do that i probably load up the NAS with more video because my laptop is full now. so from the video perspective some of that would only exist on the NAS.
i do hvae electronics on UPS which comes in handy for the rare outage and i still have wifi :)
i read this article to see about possible failures. http://www.adrc.com/raid_failure_types.html
Yes, RAID protects you from most hard drive failures (not from those so severe it otherwise damages the NAS, which is rare). It does not protect you from other faults in the NAS, fire, flood, theft, etc. Since NAS hardware can change, and the file system with it, relying on being able to buy replacement hardware in the future in case the chassis dies is not the best plan.
As for Acronis, it works well from a NAS. But if you need to do a "bare metal" restore (hard drive replaced), it's a lot easier if you copy the backup to a USB drive and restore from that. As the extended family "IT guy", I've had to do it a few times.
Sandshark wrote:
As for Acronis, it works well from a NAS. But if you need to do a "bare metal" restore (hard drive replaced), it's a lot easier if you copy the backup to a USB drive and restore from that.
I don't recall any difficulty running over the network (booting up with the restore image). But I was using gigabit ethernet. If I'd been using WiFi I probably would have copied it to a USB drive.
Sandshark wrote:
Yes, RAID protects you from most hard drive failures (not from those so severe it otherwise damages the NAS, which is rare). It does not protect you from other faults in the NAS, fire, flood, theft, etc. Since NAS hardware can change, and the file system with it, relying on being able to buy replacement hardware in the future in case the chassis dies is not the best plan.
If you are only storing image backups on the NAS, then RAID might well be enough. After all, you still do have two copies on different devices (the original on a PC and the backup on the NAS).
Unfortunately some of the marketing out there might lead you to think otherwise, but if you use the NAS for primary storage, then you will do need a backup
this is interesting. i never heard of WD pro drives
even WD page doesnt list them
https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-storage.html
does WM have a secret stock?
also i see seagate is 10 bucks cheaper than WD so thats really a toss up.
luckyinpa wrote:
even WD page doesnt list them
Yes it does: https://www.wdc.com/products/business-internal-storage/wd-red-pro.html
What seagates are you comparing them to?
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