DS1513+ Nightly Backup box

[ladon]

Hi all,

I've just taken delivery of my 1513+
Loading it up with 4x3tb WD reds in raid 5 so will have 9tb of space to work with to start.

I want to set up a nightly back up task that is either performed over the local network, or via USB or esata.

I have a couple of options, and would love some feedback/thoughts/opinions on which way would be better.

1. I have an old DLink DNS-323. I could load this with 2x4tb greens and set it up as an rsync server (I read somewhere about this as a possibility)
2. I could purchase a 4 bay drive enclosure and connect via esata or USB 3.0. A thought might be the ICYCube MB561U3S-4S
3. Purchase 2 x 2 bay enclosures and set each up as a span and perform 2 different back up tasks nightly

I will also have an offsite back up that is performed weekly. Likely a 2 bay enclosure in span mode and a single bay enclosure.

Any thoughts/suggestions on instigating this would be greatly appreciated.
Fire away with questions needing more detail as well.

Thanks very much.
Andrew

 

[stevech]

My smaller NAS...
USB3 drive, formatted same as NAS drives (ext4 I thing), gets a backup copy of VIP directories in the NAS once a day.
Second volume / drive in NAS runs Synology's Time Backup setup to copy out selected directories (folders) every day, and keep the last 90 or so days of versions of all files. This is really neat; saved my buns from human error (me) many times. I don't use RAID by intent.

Offsite - not me. Security issues and my meager 5Mbps upstream is too slow. For photos and benign files, to share, I have used OpenDrive for quite some time. Their free is OK, and their CUSTOM plan is the lowest cost. IMO they are better than all the others I've tried, but some years back they had a data breach and a long outage. Like them all, I guess. I found AWS products too costly for casual user.