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Best way to backup 5TB of data on NAS
My ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition [X-RAID2] is using about 5TB of the 10TB available. I've been backing up my various folders/files using 3TB USB drives via FrontView Backup. This has worked quite w...
I think that is sometimes called SPAN. It will have the same flaw as RAID-0.
swamp2 wrote: Thanks again. I'm aware of JBOD. When using JBOD on my Vantec enclosure it states that the drives will appear as a single drive with the sum of the capacities.
I agree WiFi wouldn't work, you would need gigabit ethernet. That would be faster than USB. I guess you are saying that you are unwilling to get ethernet for the Mac?
swamp2 wrote: Backing up over WiFi with 4+ TB would probably be a multi week process and isn't feasible from my perspective. It already takes about 3 days over USB.
Well, I wasn't suggesting two, only one (making the assumption that it was practical to do the off-site on the mac using the existing enclosure). Another option for off-site is cloud backup (for instance Crashplan that would be ~$60 per year).
swamp2 wrote: Again the problem with an additional NAS is that I would need 2 of them, one for weekly BUs one for off site BU. That is another $400 plus the $400 for drives.
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