Im alittle curious since everyone 's pretty smart in here i was wondering whats everyone 's ow...

[G+_Alex Martinez]

Im alittle curious since everyone's pretty smart in here i was wondering whats everyone's own personal styles of backing up there data and what works best for you all. Like how many back ups do you all have how do you all back it up .What brands of nas boxs do you all use and are you happy with them. I recently had my external drive die with 6 months of pictures and all my media gone so just seeing what everyone else does to back up what software and nas brands you all love.

[G+_Eddie Foy]

I BU my mac to a pair of Syonolgy NASs via time machine along with CCC and SuperDuper. I have a cron job that rotates the CCC/SD BUs.

Once in a while I'll back up to a HD and shelf it.And optical media for long term storage (but ONLY with archival grade media)

No cloud.

[G+_Jason Brown]

I use a Ubuntu Server as a NAS, running Crashplan in an LXD container with read-only access to my backup volume. This way I have a local and remote backup. A nice feature of Crashplan is that you can share drive space with friends as well. This way you can have multiple remote copies and if something goes wrong you can go to your friends house and pickup your copy and restore it. Downloading a TB from the web via Crashplan's server would be a last resort for me.

 

I'm waiting for the new UHD bluray disks ( Hopefully around a TB or more of storage per disk) to come out on M-Disc. I haven't looked for a time line on this but it would be a great long term storage utilizing a different medium.

 

thats my 2cents.

[G+_David Wiggins]

I have an old Acer 4 bay NAS running freeNAS with 3 TB WD red x4. I have it selectively syncing to Glacier, and zfs replication to another offsite.

 

And remember, if you deleting the original from your PC, the other copy is now the original, not the backup.

(In all honesty, my NAS is where I keep most of my originals, with the offsite and Glacier as backups)

[G+_James Newsom]

I purchased dual Synology DS414 units and I keep one of the units local to the house and backup the Windows machines in the house via Acronis True Image 2016. I have the other Synology at a remote location where I allow the remote Synology to OpenVPN into the network and every morning at 04:00 I have an older Synology Time Backup job.

 

I've just ran into a problem with the Time Backup not allowing more than 512 backups so I have 512 days of sync'd backups between the two Synology units so this is giving me the opportunity to switch from Time Backup to the new HyperBackup routine.

 

No cloud syncing at this time but Synology does support various cloud storage vendors if I wanted to do really remote archiving (but I'm too cheap and don't have enough bandwidth to make it practical).

[G+_Jason Marsh]

I used a simple NAS for years but lost data when the drive housing the data got "the click". Better units are available now with multi-drive redundancy and lots of great features (jails, apps, so on), so a NAS is a great way to go.

 

I know I'm living dangerously, but here's what I do...

 

My user folders are all on OneDrive so the data sleuths of the world can haz my files, and my PCs backup to a local WHS2011 server. I know that malware could cause total loss of data on-machine and in oneDrive, but I'd still have the option of restoring from any date in the backups on the WHS2011 box. That's presuming a malware epidemic doesn't hit the whole house and take over the server, the toaster, the garage door opener, Rokus, toilet, et c....

 

On the server I'm protected from single-drive failure with software mirroring two drives (StableBit DrivePool), so a weather, theft, or seismic event could still cause trouble. Denial is so nice, but I keep my fingers crossed even when I sleep, and that's worked for me for quite a while :)