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Redundant home backup solution!

  • 09-06-2010 11:54pm
    #1
    Cableguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    I’m looking for a redundant backup solution for my home. Id like to backup about a 1TB of info and I am going to emphasis the redundancy as I don’t think there’s any point in keeping such a large volume of information if it cannot be protected from a failure of some sort.

    Just wondering if anyone has a redundant backup solution at home for such a large volume of data.

    Thanks in advance for an input.


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  • #2
    unnameduser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    If you do a search through this forum you should find a few threads on this already. A important point to remember is to keep a copy offsite in some form. No point in having 2 sets of data in the same location that can be lost due to theft / fire / flood etc.

    Best of luck.


  • #3
    Cableguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭Cableguy


    unnameduser wrote: »
    If you do a search through this forum you should find a few threads on this already. A important point to remember is to keep a copy offsite in some form. No point in having 2 sets of data in the same location that can be lost due to theft / fire / flood etc.

    Best of luck.

    Nope nobody seems to have raised this before. After a search for redundant backup all results were irelevant!


  • #4
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,253 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    You might try a Google search (with 'site:www.boards.ie' as a search term) rather than the boards own one; some people have said in the past that this works better


  • #5
    Cableguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭Cableguy


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    You might try a Google search (with 'site:www.boards.ie' as a search term) rather than the boards own one; some people have said in the past that this works better

    Nope not much better!


  • #6
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    get a second external hard drive, encrypt the data on it using truecrypt or similiar and give it to a mate / keep it in your drawer at work for safe keeping.

    unless you have a decent upload speed any online options are ruled out.

    no point keeping a second copy in your house.

    my thoughts on it, but looking for the same myself so interested to see what comes up.


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  • #7
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,936 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Cableguy wrote: »
    Nope not much better!

    Don't search using the phrase "redundant backup". A backup is a form of redundancy so that would be an unusual phrase to use - hence, no search results.


  • #8
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,936 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Random wrote: »
    give it to a mate / keep it in your drawer at work for safe keeping.

    Exactly. Probably the single best thing you can do - get it off site!


  • #9
    Voodoo2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭Voodoo2


    Use a NAS device like D-Link's DNS 323 or HP Media Smart Server


  • #10
    techguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭techguy


    I'm going to assume you want to do regular backups so a quick dump to external drive and moving it off site isn't suitable.

    You could just add a second drive to your current machine and setup MS Robocopy to do regular mirrors throughout the day.

    Then for the most important data you setup a scheduled online backup. Because this is a home server i'm going to assume that most of the 1TB is media and a fraction is actually important data like study, projects etc..

    By the way, whats your budget?


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