badpingjohn

Re:Ask HN: What is your backup strategy for desktops\laptops, NAS and ... on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:35PM (#22859210)

Do you backup only the Synology to the cloud or do you backup each machine separately to the cloud?

Re:Ask HN: What is your backup strategy for desktops\laptops, NAS and ... on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:20PM (#22859085)

> That way if a corrupt file gets accidentally backed up to the NAS it won’t necessarily propagate through the entire backup chain like it might if you were copying the NAS directly.

That's a very good point. Thanks.

Re:Ask HN: What is your backup strategy for desktops\laptops, NAS and ... on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:53AM (#22855817)

I'd like to have redundancy (the 3-2-1 rule) and I do have a local NAS so my question referred to that scenario.

Ask HN: What is your backup strategy for desktops\laptops, NAS and cloud?

Posted by badpingjohn on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:43AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Having to backup several machines and a NAS, and with redundancy in mind: Do you backup the desktops\laptops locally to the NAS and then backup from NAS to cloud? Or do you also backup each machine separately to the cloud? Do you also keep a local cold backup?I’m not asking which specific cloud storage vendors you use (like S3, B2, Wasabi etc.) or which specific tools you recommend (rsync,...

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