Hi, I'm looking for some piece of advise.
I'm looking to buy a NAS device to store my family pictures and videos. A pretty simple and common use case.
I first thought of buying a 2-bay device so I can set up a RAID 1 so if one hard drive dies my files would be safe in the second.
But after really thinking it (and reading) I agree that RAIDs are not a good backup plan.
I have been researching different brands (Synology, QNAP, LaCie, Asustor) and all claim to be able to backup the NAS in another NAS or DAS.
However, based on what I've understood, what they actually do is just mirror the NAS drive into the other NAS/DAS. The problem that I see is that mirroring is not a good backup solution. If it was OK, then I could just use a RAID 1, with the two drives mirroring.
I think that what I'm looking for is a backup software such as Apple's Time Machine, or Crashplan -that allow to manage versions and history of the files- that could actually be installed and run in the NAS itself.
The way I'm willing to use the device is upload the files to the NAS (through a shared folder or even a cloud setup) and have the NAS manage the versioning and backup. I don't want the backup software to run on my computer.
As simple and trivial as my use case sounds, I wasn't able to find anything that really fits my needs.
Am I completely wrong?
Thanks in advance for your adivce
I'm looking to buy a NAS device to store my family pictures and videos. A pretty simple and common use case.
I first thought of buying a 2-bay device so I can set up a RAID 1 so if one hard drive dies my files would be safe in the second.
But after really thinking it (and reading) I agree that RAIDs are not a good backup plan.
I have been researching different brands (Synology, QNAP, LaCie, Asustor) and all claim to be able to backup the NAS in another NAS or DAS.
However, based on what I've understood, what they actually do is just mirror the NAS drive into the other NAS/DAS. The problem that I see is that mirroring is not a good backup solution. If it was OK, then I could just use a RAID 1, with the two drives mirroring.
I think that what I'm looking for is a backup software such as Apple's Time Machine, or Crashplan -that allow to manage versions and history of the files- that could actually be installed and run in the NAS itself.
The way I'm willing to use the device is upload the files to the NAS (through a shared folder or even a cloud setup) and have the NAS manage the versioning and backup. I don't want the backup software to run on my computer.
As simple and trivial as my use case sounds, I wasn't able to find anything that really fits my needs.
Am I completely wrong?
Thanks in advance for your adivce
