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Backups are absolutely essential... if your data is in the least bit important, it should be backed up. Raid is not a backup, it is just a form of hardware redundancy.

Now I fully understand that backing a large amount of data is not trivial, not at all. However, I can guarantee that trying to recover it is much more difficult. Really, the recovery path is one that is best not travelled.

I had backup in mind as I was designing my NAS data solution and I have deliberately limited my NAS capacity to a maximum of 8GB, so as to make it easier to backup - I can buy USB drives that have that capacity. I have done that and all my data is backed up - in fact it is now backed up twice (tip of the hat to StephenB). Additionally, I have it all on a UPS... just in case.

I can tell you that my entire solution was not cheap, jings no, but then I did not go out and buy it all at once. On the other hand, it is reliable even if I have an entire box go bang, and it is expandible in the future. My next backup step will be to get an affordable, easy and reliable off-site backup solution too.

I sleep easier at night,

Ian