Inexpensive NAS for over 4TB backups - recommendations?

maxblack wrote:

For our primary PCs, I keep Daily, Monthly, and Yearly backups on the NAS and then Rsync these to external USB drive on a weekly basis, with Rsync set to delete files on the external drive. Otherwise it can get mind-numbingly messy IMO. Sure if one makes a mistake he/she doesn't notice within a week, a backup might be almost a month old. But then at least in my case I have WHS2011 backups and Acronis too. Can't be "too backed-up" in my opinion! :-)

Well said.

We're a Mac-based shop so all our Macs are constantly backed up via Time Machine on a Time Capsule. I want everyone to also start doing SuperDuper smart clones to the ReadyNAS on a weekly basis but have yet to put that in place.

xeltros wrote:

The choice is whether you are willing to take the risk to lose a file from time to time or if you prefer to maintain a really big save which will get messy. The choice partly depends on who is operating the NAS, if everyone is responsible and will say immediately when they delete something they don't want, it's pretty sage to use delete option, if you are dealing with daydreamers then it may not be.

Right now I'd say they're more in the latter category. The NAS is basically a big, shared storage pool and it may be beneficial to have an extra layer of protection for deleted files. The question of versioning via snapshots is interesting because it essentially gives us Time Machine-like rollback. I'll have to ask them if they think they would benefit from that.

@StevenB -
How often does your 102 make a snapshot? How often do you manually delete snapshots?

Thanks all for your help!