Volumes and Backup

Hi,

You can add another 3TB drive... I do not know if you should. If you need the extra space, then it is the easy thing to do.

You should must get a backup if you care at all, even just remotely, for your data. With RAID5 and 4 drives, you can recover from 1 failed drive. Any more than that and you loose the lot. I know that sounds harsh (and I am not even considering sophisticated and expensive revovery services), but RAID is just hardware redundancy. Contrast with a single drive solution and if that drive fails.

My backup solution consists of 2 separate USB hard drives hanging off the back up the RN204. I have scheduled RSYNC backup jobs to copy my data to the USB drives. Yes, I have 2 USB drives - I backup my data twice. I also have myRN204 on a UPS so that power spikes, brown-outs and black-outs do not threaten my data.

Now, you may think that I have gone a "bit far", but I have built this solution over time - I just did not go out and but the lot in one go. I am also in the "prevention is better than cure" fan club, as I know restoring any data from a backup up is far easier than trying to recover it from a failed drive.

I hope this helps,

Ian