NAS needed but with certain requirements

[Mark]

I wouldn't plug the other drive into the NAS. Why not? Well, if the NAS gets hit with a big enough power surge (or possibly power supply failure) it could fry both internal disks plus anything connected via USB. Not normally an issue, but if it's a business-critical backup, you have to think of these things.

[Lozza]

Originally Posted by Mark

I wouldn't plug the other drive into the NAS. Why not? Well, if the NAS gets hit with a big enough power surge (or possibly power supply failure) it could fry both internal disks plus anything connected via USB. Not normally an issue, but if it's a business-critical backup, you have to think of these things.

Surely in that case you wouldn't plug the USB into anything!!

[Mark]

You could plug the USB into a laptop on batteries connected over wireless. Unless there's a nearby EMP, that'd be fairly safe.

But in all seriousness, it's just a matter of how valuable is your data, and how much 'pain' is it worth to protect it. For example, you could connect the USB only when actually backing up. You could take the hard disk off-site so if your site burns down (heaven forbid) you still have your data, and so on. Up to you.

[Joe 90]

I'm not sure if it does all that, but I want this LG box that has a blu-ray burner & usb support as well as all the usual network features...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-N2B1D-Blu...=3D9HVGIB1N953

[Lozza]

Originally Posted by Mark

You could plug the USB into a laptop on batteries connected over wireless. Unless there's a nearby EMP, that'd be fairly safe.

This is assuming your using a 2.5 drive running off the laptop battery and not a 3.5 drive with it's own power source.... but what if the battery died in the middle of backing up and corrupted your drive!

[quote=Mark;374325But in all seriousness, it's just a matter of how valuable is your data, and how much 'pain' is it worth to protect it. For example, you could connect the USB only when actually backing up. You could take the hard disk off-site so if your site burns down (heaven forbid) you still have your data, and so on. Up to you. [/QUOTE]

That's the idea...

In my case the 1st USB drive backs up the data on the NAS over night, in the morning the drive gets swapped with the 2nd USB drive, and the first one goes home with me that night, so if anything happened to the NAS/USB over night I'd loose only 1 days worth of work on that drive.

But having the 3rd USB drive connected to my computer during the day taking on the fly back ups would mean I didn't loose that days data.

unless of course just before I unplug the 3rd USB from the computer to take it home with me and before it's backed up to the NAS USB drive the computer has a power surge and fries the 3rd USB drive!

[Mark]

To be fair, you did imply you only had one drive that was connected to the NAS. Having the second one changes things.

[Lozza]

Originally Posted by Mark

To be fair, you did imply you only had one drive that was connected to the NAS. Having the second one changes things.

No implying....

anyway what matters is if it's of use to Desmo.

[volospian]

Just a suggestion, but how about a pogoplug?

You could attach two USB drives and use something like synctoy to sync the drives, then take one off site?

Not the most elegant solution, but it's cheap and would potentially do the job...

[Mark]

If Piggymon sees that, there may be... Trouble!