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Best Overall Amazing Back Up Setup? 1K-4K Budget! Software + Hardware? Help!
asmi:
--- Quote from: PlainName on June 26, 2023, 10:49:32 pm ---I am sure it was reported, but no-one with the ability to interpret the report saw it. Which is why I say above that a self-build techy system is probably OK, but the same system built for a non-technical user is probably not. The OP here I would suggest is not a systems guru.
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In this case I would set up a system with a hot spare, as well as an email notification which would in no uncertain terms say what happened and what they need to do next. This measure likely pushes the price of solution up because one would need more bays that just for a data array, as well as an extra drive, but it eliminates any urgency from a fault response (you can buy a new HDD and set it as a hot spare at your earliest convenience instead of "I need a new drive RIGHT NOW, or I risk losing my data!!", because while you no longer have a hot spare, you still are at full redundancy), so in my mind this little extra expense is totally worth it.
PlainName:
--- Quote ---Manual backups is the worst of all, because ...
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Yes, I already said manual is a killer. But the point I was trying to make there was that automation is not the be all and end all, and can be just as useless as a manual system. You cannot just kick it off and then ignore it until it's required to get you out of the shit, and expect that it will manage that.
sokoloff:
For “best overall”, I think you have to consider zfs, snapshots, and shipping zfs change sets (from the snapshots) to an offsite zfs target.
That will give you rollback to prior versions of files in the event of user or application error or crytpto-locker/ransomware.
asmi:
--- Quote from: PlainName on June 27, 2023, 10:40:43 pm ---Yes, I already said manual is a killer. But the point I was trying to make there was that automation is not the be all and end all, and can be just as useless as a manual system. You cannot just kick it off and then ignore it until it's required to get you out of the shit, and expect that it will manage that.
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You can also setup automatic verification of backups (which is what I did and always recommend everyone to do). This way you will get notified if something goes wrong, but you don't have to do anything manually (because any manual step is a guarantee that every once in a while it won't happen for one reason or another, and so you're exposing yourself to a potential risk).
asmi:
--- Quote from: sokoloff on June 27, 2023, 10:54:55 pm ---For “best overall”, I think you have to consider zfs, snapshots, and shipping zfs change sets (from the snapshots) to an offsite zfs target.
That will give you rollback to prior versions of files in the event of user or application error or crytpto-locker/ransomware.
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It won't save you if your entire array goes "caboom".
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