Fastest/largest storage unit for "home enterprise"

[ahmedilyas]

So, I have an enterprise/beefy computer. Every so often I do a full system backup and have the ability to do a bare metal restoration if I need to (i.e if I move to a different computer, don't have to reinstall etc... etc...). That's all fine. I have a backup solution.

I store my large backups on an internal SATA drive. Problem is, it gets filled up quick - maybe after 3 backups. I then have to swap it in/out again and can be a pain at times.

I am thinking about having some storage box, maybe NAS, to hold a bunch of drives and be able to backup to there and restore FROM there.

Questions:

- What and how can I get a FAST network transfer between my desktop computer (1GB port, wired to a Netgear Nighthawk R9000 router) and a potential NAS box? What equip do I need to get REALLY fast transfers for LARGE files? (5GB/file essentially)

- What NAS box, or any other storage unit, would you recommend? Price is not an issue (almost...)

- Is it better to connect the storage unit to the router or directly into the PC (I have 1 PCIe slot available if I need another NIC) to do the transfers? No one else in the house will be using the network or the storage box.

Thank you

 

[mdd1963]

How frequently do you need the entire drive to be imaged?

Once you have a full image backup, I could not see any reason to keep it longer than a month if a new backup is made....what are the odds you'd revert to a backup image 3 months earlier?

As you get a new image every 'x' amount of time, then delete the oldest.

 

[guanyu210379]

I would do image backup only once per months and keep only the last 3.
If you need ti more often, keep only backups only within the last 2-4 weeks.

 

[mdd1963]

It takes longer to restore from a slow backup spinning drive for me than to simply reinstall from USB to NVME...

 

[guanyu210379]

yup! Installing everything from scratch on SSDs is actually faster than recovering from images on mechanical HDDs.

 

[ahmedilyas]

Thanks. Yes I do have SSD's however I cannot reinstall everything from scratch. Long story. And that's not quite the issue - the question is about a large storage unit/NAS box and how fast to transfer data between that and the PC as well as what equip is recommended

There sometimes is a reason to revert back to an older image - the software used is unfortunately buggy at times but that is the software I need given the nature of the work that I do and the OS's it supports. Then at least I have a previous "working" image I can revert to without much delay.

I backup once every few months but planning on doing it more often. At least once a month when I have the "right" solution in place in terms of a storage box.

 

[FireWire2]

Mac has Time Machine, Window has Shadow Copy Service. As far as transfer rate NAS (Gb) never intended to be fast. only DAS is fast.

On Thunderbolt 3 8 drives from DATOptic T8C-S12.TB3, we loaded with 8x SSD as RAID 6 (two drives fail redundancy). It read/write @ 2200MB/s - a speed that fills a DVD about 2 seconds. Of course, you use 12TB HDD you can have up to 96TB space with reading/write more than 800MB/s. Since it is a Thunderbolt 3 DAS you plug and unplug or tune ON/OFF whenever you want.
You may consider this

Note I'm using MB not Mb (Byte=8 bits)

 

[USAFRet]

So, I have an enterprise/beefy computer. Every so often I do a full system backup and have the ability to do a bare metal restoration if I need to (i.e if I move to a different computer, don't have to reinstall etc... etc...). That's all fine. I have a backup solution.

I store my large backups on an internal SATA drive. Problem is, it gets filled up quick - maybe after 3 backups. I then have to swap it in/out again and can be a pain at times.

I am thinking about having some storage box, maybe NAS, to hold a bunch of drives and be able to backup to there and restore FROM there.

Questions:

- What and how can I get a FAST network transfer between my desktop computer (1GB port, wired to a Netgear Nighthawk R9000 router) and a potential NAS box? What equip do I need to get REALLY fast transfers for LARGE files? (5GB/file essentially)

- What NAS box, or any other storage unit, would you recommend? Price is not an issue (almost...)

- Is it better to connect the storage unit to the router or directly into the PC (I have 1 PCIe slot available if I need another NIC) to do the transfers? No one else in the house will be using the network or the storage box.

Thank you

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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3383768/backup-situation-home.html