Setting up Backup Storage Network at home

[CodeSlapper]

I'm looking to backup my home pc to minimize downtime for disk corruption, failure etc. Also, I'd like to be able to transfer files from PC to PC.

Second, I would to like to have drives that are basically clones of my drives that I can just plug in and be up and running.

What sort of hardware and software do I need? Do I need to have an online backup as well? Essentially if a fire or lightning were to strike it would keep me down if I didn't have a backup elsewhere.

 

[kanewolf]

If you want to protect from fire, theft, etc then you do need offsite backups. That could be a disk left at a friend/relative's house or cloud backup. Your internet UPLOAD speed will determine if cloud backup is feasible. I use amazon glacier from my cloud backups.

 

[CodeSlapper]

What sort of upload speed do you think makes this feasible?

 

[kanewolf]

What sort of upload speed do you think makes this feasible?

It depends on how much you have to backup. I have 30Mbit and use cloud. I would think you would need 10Mbit or better.