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Feedback on backup idea
Hello, I just had a strange idea for using an NAS system as backup location. It's not about backing up the NAS, but about backing up a central windows Server onto the NAS. I know that misusing RA...
I'm usually just a home user, but I was asked to help with a new backup for a small company, so I just started making some thoughts.
I've never used an NAS (at least not in the Desktop box form factor) as primary storage for anything, even in my home setup the NAS is mostly used as the backup to the machines.
Tape backups are getting too expensive, as the whole setup needs to be exchanged and the best offer with 500GB tapes is almost 3k EUR.
Also the problem with that is it's not future proof and in a few years they'll have to exchange at least the tapes yet another time.
That's why I thought to ask around here, seems like some pretty decent experience with backups is available in this forum.
Ok I just thought about the RAID wear-leveling stuff and didn't take into account the other issues that might come up with such a solution.
So screw my original idea, I see the problems clearly now and understand it was a bad idea.
The NAS seemed like a great idea because it can easily integrate into the infrastructure and using the NAS as a backup target is rather easy to achieve.
Any advice on what backup solution might fit the outlined scenario otherwise?
I've never used an NAS (at least not in the Desktop box form factor) as primary storage for anything, even in my home setup the NAS is mostly used as the backup to the machines.
Tape backups are getting too expensive, as the whole setup needs to be exchanged and the best offer with 500GB tapes is almost 3k EUR.
Also the problem with that is it's not future proof and in a few years they'll have to exchange at least the tapes yet another time.
That's why I thought to ask around here, seems like some pretty decent experience with backups is available in this forum.
Ok I just thought about the RAID wear-leveling stuff and didn't take into account the other issues that might come up with such a solution.
So screw my original idea, I see the problems clearly now and understand it was a bad idea.
The NAS seemed like a great idea because it can easily integrate into the infrastructure and using the NAS as a backup target is rather easy to achieve.
Any advice on what backup solution might fit the outlined scenario otherwise?
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