Recent content by ZugTheDragon

I wanted to use RAID as protection against data corruption (which is why I'd prefer to use ZFS, as it's really good at detecting and correcting errors) I cannot fit all my drives in one system, and would need to split them across several systems anyway The problem is that I assume I cannot make...

I don't use windows anyway, but if the NAS uses it's own RAID system I will not be able to read the drives on anything probably And your solution would require having a whole extra drive and what about having some of the backups on the 2nd more secure network?

"Drives not accessible by anything" If they're not accessible by anything, how can anything be backed up to them? And what about having a 2nd lan network? Another issue, I've discovered that the QNAP device I might get only supports it's own vulnerability ridden OS, which only supports EXT4...

I am trying to find something that'd fit my needs, but I am struggling to find something quire right for me.

This is what I'd need! However, having to manually remember to connect the hard drive and remove it constantly sounds like a pain, and straight up impossible sometimes.. as well as leaving plenty of possibility for human error of me forgetting to / not feeling like connecting it. And how would...

The problem with that is that it cannot automatised, it'd rely on me manually plugging in the external drive and backing up everything to it, and if I'll be using an external drive for that how can I be sure that nothing on it could get corrupted? And what is the point of all the other...

Is there any way to make something "offline" that would be able to do the job automatically? Not sure if a networked PC that doesn't have any ports open to the internet would count as "offline" or perhaps if it was on it's own network shared with only the main machine which it backs up? I can...

I don't think I'd trust an USB flash drive with reliability, I think most are designed cheaply to be just carriers of files from one PC to another quickly And it doesn't address many of the concerns that I've pointed out

I see, so there could be for example a weekly backup and the "incremental" backup that only notes down the changes daily since the weekly one? That sounds perfect, but I am still not sure what to use to make those, and how can I be safe that the backup server could not be breached

A server would be very useful considering I often need to access the same files from my laptop, desktop and phone, and being able to use them away from home would be very useful as well. I am taking the NAS offer as well as it seems to be a perfect puzzle piece in this job, and because just the...

By automatically checking for errors, I mean if an error occurs on the main media, of a file that was already backed up, that whatever program or script backs it up (still not sure how to do that either) won't just overwrite the good copy on the backup That'd make the backup rather useless...

Hello, thank you for the response! While this does give me a somewhat good rule of thumb, it still leaves me with a lot of questions. How would the backups be made in a way that would automatically correct any errors on them, while also remaining untouchable (while not using more than necessary...

After several near irrecoverable data losses, I have finally decided to do something about the situation and make backups However, I have realized I am not sure what would be the optimal way to make a backup that'd protect both against hardware and software failure. I do have some external hard...