[ale] DIY NAS vs Boxed NAS?

[DJ-Pfulio]

I worry about

a) Data corruption / software bugs / human stupidity
b) HW failures
c) Lightning damage / Tornado
c) Fire destroying the building

in that order.  I've experienced all of the first 3 faults.  Had about
$400 in computer stuff fried by lightning over the years.  Not the
computers, just peripherals.

The most common problem is human stupidity, which makes verioned backups
absolutely critical for me. ;)

On 12/4/18 9:15 AM, Jerald Sheets via Ale wrote:
> If you’re talking for business…. Amazon Glacier.
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2018, at 7:35 PM, Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> Can't do cloud backup.  Number one, I don't like it, I'm not in control.
>> Number two: I have a 3 Mbps uplink on a good day.  Mirroring the NAS to
>> the cloud would take a century (over 2 TB of data that would be high value).
>>
>> I'm not concerned about theft but I would watch for hardware failure so
>> I'd have a local copy (probably one super large drive hanging off the
>> system that spins up once in a while to mirror the array).
>>
>> On 2018-12-03 14:30, Chris Fowler wrote:
>>> Maybe too late to give you a decent reply. 
>>>
>>> I have two concerns with backups. 
>>>
>>> 1. Theft 
>>> 2. Hardware failure. 
>>>
>>> #1 gives me the most anxiety when I travel or we are on vacation. 
>>>
>>> One way I have solved this is with a Ctera backup appliance that has cloud sync and ranking of my on data by value to tag for that sync. I did not have equivalent cloud storage as I had within the NAS. High value data was replicated to their storage system. 
>>>