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ConfusedUs posted:DrivePool is pretty sweet, but I wouldn't call it a backup solution. It's sort of a weird mix of software RAID and Storage Spaces. Yeah well I would call it a backup solution. Its about as good as RSYNC anyhow. Logical RAID 1 isn't bad and you can use NTFS previous versions. I mean if we are taking about mission critical poo poo, no it's not good for that but for 20 bux it beats the poo poo out of anything else. The cases where it fails is if you get hit by lightning or someone steals all your poo poo.
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ConfusedUs posted:So you think it's a good solution when it doesn't cover two of the top three reasons for data loss? I think its a great solution for home users. Top reason for data loss is hard drive crashing, at least around the computers I get to mess with.
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ConfusedUs posted:Yeah, maybe that's the top reason, but it's certainly not the only reason. Fire, theft, and power-related failures are the other primary reasons. Well I do consider it 2 copies even though they are not in a separate box. The drives can be yanked at any time and run through normal NTFS recovery software or any other computer. The entire filesystem is just NTFS after all which makes it far easier to recovery from problems than and RAID type solutions. I mean I get what you are saying but for an average joe that just wants to combine a bunch of different sized hard drives into a pool with redundancy, its great.
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So I need to finally tackle cloud backups for my 8+TB of files. So far Crash plan has popped up a lot, so I am trying it but the more I read about it the more issues I read about. Is it the currently the goon 'unlimited' cloud backup choice? [edit] Just my files, not business. redeyes fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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thebigcow posted:Robocopy with whatever settings for retries seems appropriate to you and write a log file so you can see the failures. I swear, there has GOT to be a decent GUI for robocopy. Or at least something with a decent gui for drag and dropping. I used to use SuperCopier back in the day before it turned into junkware.
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The Dark One posted:Would a My Cloud EX2 be overkill for a seven-person office that generates a lot of PDFs and photos? I use those a lot in small business situations. They have nice features, real simple to manage. Run a bit hot. I enjoy the USB 3.0 ports which can be used for automatic internal rsync backups from the pool/array to a USB stick. In fact, I rotate a couple 128GB thumb drives and take them off site. Hard to beat for the price.
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The Gunslinger posted:What's a good solution for image based backups on a network? Ideally I'd like the client machines to all send an image to a backup server which can store it and also has the ability to upload to the cloud for redundancy. I want to minimize downtime in the event of hardware failure and we use a lot of old lovely software which finding reinstallations for would be cumbersome. I'm a fan of Macrium Reflect after Acronis kind of started sucking.
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If I were you (I migrated from WHS as well). I would build a machine with Windows 7,8, or 10. Then load stablebit drivepool. Bare metal restore needs something like Acronis or Macrium Reflect as well but you can target that at the pool. No dedup but nothing does that that I have used. Storage Spaces is block level stripped and has many limitations and no real documentation. It sucks.
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The Gunslinger posted:You'll be able to just use the other drive and keep going, yeah. You can also specify the balancing, I have some types of content on one drive and the rest on another. That makes it easier to know whats missing. If you don't want to do that what I did as a workaround was schedule a batch script in Windows to dump the directory contents of the whole thing, it runs like once a week and gets emailed to me. Just a simple dir /S > dump.txt type script. That way if I lose a drive I can just run a diff on the old contents and if necessary get back whatever was lost. Great plan actually. And yeah when a drive drops the pool goes into read only mode. Drives are formatted with NTFS as usual and there is just a hidden folder with the pool folders inside it. Super simple to restore from another computer if necessary. I've set up abround 10 DrivePools and none have lost anything which is pretty nice.
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unknown posted:Haha, 'inherited' another ancient box. Here's a prime example of why raid is good, and why you should have backups. I'd call that an example of why RAID is bad actually.
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FogHelmut posted:Seagate broke my heart. I think I remember that Toshiba has Hitachi's old tooling, and the value is there at this price. Pretty sure Western digital bought up HGST.
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FogHelmut posted:Sorta unless something has changed https://hardforum.com/threads/are-todays-hitachi-3-5-wd-or-toshiba.1820956/ huh, thanks for that.
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havenwaters posted:The 8TB and 6TB in that series are SMR drives. The 4TB may also be a SMR drive, not sure. I have one. Its write performance goes as low as like 30MB/s.. not good. Reads are more normalish. It's a good value for backups but dont even attempt using it for workstation drive.
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eames posted:Macrium Reflect question! We have a small business with 7 workstations (6x Windows 10 & 1x Windows XP, don't ask Acronis can create a special partition that isn't windows accessible, then it stores continuous images on that. A good protection from cryptolockers.
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). The server is backed up nightly via Acronis. Data that isn't stored on the server gets backed up offsite via Crashplan. I would like to have semi-recent disk images of each workstation to minimize downtime just in case we do get hit by a Cryptolocker.
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Why is it something simple like backups requires a domain! I'm not yelling at you DP, more yelling at Microsoft for not creating a product for small business. No one wants a loving domain controller to back up 4 PCs!
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