Synology DS212 with 2 x 2TB drives.
Drive 1 is a "basic" volume. On it are all my home's PCs' files, videos, etc.
Drive 2 is also a "basic" volume. The Synology (DSM) "time machine" backup is configured so drive 2 has a 30 day history of files on drive 1 that have changed. That is, drive 2 is a time machine history of drive 1.
Seems to me that this has several benefits: (1) protection from drive failure, (2) protection from file system corruption and (3) time history to get any prior version of a file, up to 30 days.
I'm only using about half of the 2TB, and most of this is HD videos we chose to archive.
Been using this for just a couple of days.
Make sense? Pitfalls?
Drive 1 is a "basic" volume. On it are all my home's PCs' files, videos, etc.
Drive 2 is also a "basic" volume. The Synology (DSM) "time machine" backup is configured so drive 2 has a 30 day history of files on drive 1 that have changed. That is, drive 2 is a time machine history of drive 1.
Seems to me that this has several benefits: (1) protection from drive failure, (2) protection from file system corruption and (3) time history to get any prior version of a file, up to 30 days.
I'm only using about half of the 2TB, and most of this is HD videos we chose to archive.
Been using this for just a couple of days.
Make sense? Pitfalls?