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Inexpensive NAS for over 4TB backups - recommendations?
To date, we've backed up our ReadyNAS Pros using cheap USB drives. This has served us well over the past three years but as we move forward to much larger disks and volume capacity, I'm rethinking thi...
Interesting. This this the key quote for our purposes:
So probably not what we want.
I'll dig deeper into btrfs and OS6 to see if anything else stands out. I'm sure we can live without the spin-down option. We'll make sure to schedule power on/off with enough headroom to insure finished backups, or use WoL and scheduled power down.
So depending on budget, looks like a RN102 or RN104 should do the trick.
Thanks again for your help!
Note that a snapshot is not a backup
So probably not what we want.
I'll dig deeper into btrfs and OS6 to see if anything else stands out. I'm sure we can live without the spin-down option. We'll make sure to schedule power on/off with enough headroom to insure finished backups, or use WoL and scheduled power down.
So depending on budget, looks like a RN102 or RN104 should do the trick.
Thanks again for your help!
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