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Backup plan
Hi all,
Over the years I have stored all my docs, email, photos on my computer. A few years ago I moved from a single disk to a RAID box and everything has been RAID-5 since. However I then understood that RAID does not mean that my data is safe. A RAID can fail anyway or my computer may severely break down (a very bad PSU frying all the peripherals for example) or someone may steal it and so on.
I then looked for some cloud service but I cannot find what I need.
BackBlaze seems to be the cheapest but it does not back up NAS's and it does not have any online realtime accessible area such as Dropbox, service which I love.
I am using Dropbox as a free user but it will go down to a couple GB's in a year time. The full service is just 1TB and it's expensive: £7 per month is £84 x year, £840 in 10 years.
So I have been thinking: would another NAS be the best solution? I cannot install it on a different location but I could install it 'hidden' in the same house and just use it as a Backup and as Online cloud such as Dropbox. It would be as big as I need for a modest price.
What is your thought? I am so concerned that if one of my RAIDs fail I'm in deep trouble.
Thank you!
Tony
Over the years I have stored all my docs, email, photos on my computer. A few years ago I moved from a single disk to a RAID box and everything has been RAID-5 since. However I then understood that RAID does not mean that my data is safe. A RAID can fail anyway or my computer may severely break down (a very bad PSU frying all the peripherals for example) or someone may steal it and so on.
I then looked for some cloud service but I cannot find what I need.
BackBlaze seems to be the cheapest but it does not back up NAS's and it does not have any online realtime accessible area such as Dropbox, service which I love.
I am using Dropbox as a free user but it will go down to a couple GB's in a year time. The full service is just 1TB and it's expensive: £7 per month is £84 x year, £840 in 10 years.
So I have been thinking: would another NAS be the best solution? I cannot install it on a different location but I could install it 'hidden' in the same house and just use it as a Backup and as Online cloud such as Dropbox. It would be as big as I need for a modest price.
What is your thought? I am so concerned that if one of my RAIDs fail I'm in deep trouble.
Thank you!
Tony
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- It is just a cache, so you can simply delete it.
- It would be advisable to change the tmp directory for Crashplan to one on the data volume as well.
Edit /usr/local/crashplan/bin/run.conf and add the following to the GUI_JAVA_OPTS variable:
-Djava.io.tmpdir=/c/.crashplan-tmp - Doesn't SRV_JAVA_OPTS need this also?
- Well the article I read only suggested changing GUI_JAVA_OPTS. Not sure.
- I have now purchased a year of CrashPlan. The software has been running smoothly and it is very fast in synchronising. I am also happy that I can access all my files remotely by restoring what I need wherever I am.
I am also impressed by the 'versioning': unlimited space and unlimited versioning. How is that possible?
Thanks all (itsjasper in particular) for your help ;)
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