[Shop-talk] OT flash drives

[Peter Murray]

Scott-

Look at Hybrid Backup Sync on your QNAP for automatic backup capability.
I'd look at a combination of local USB drive
as a backup destination, as well as BackBlaze B2 (also via HBS). They're
one of the least expensive cloud storage
providers out there, and they've been excellent for me thus far.

I have a QNAP TS-873 at home, and I really like it. It is an investment,
but it just works, and doesn't require constant
fiddling to keep it working, unlike my 1986 BMW R80RT.

-Peter

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 2:41 PM Scott Hall via Shop-talk <
shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:

> I think I'm a late adopter and certainly not as sophisticated as I'd like,
> but I bought and finally put drives in a QNAP 3-bay NAS (networked attached
> storage). It's using RAID5 so it can tolerate one drive failure without
> losing the data. I'm now looking for an online backup for that, my thought
> being that even if the NAS dies I'll have it backed up as well.
>
> The issue I'm having is that the NAS holds 8TB of files and cloud backup
> of 8TB is expensive. Or more expensive than I thought it would be, anyway.
>
> For 512 GB, I'd think you could get a NAS with RAID6 (I think, Google it
> and don't listen to me) that tolerates two drive failures and a cheap
> online backup system. I'd sleep pretty well with that setup. And 512GB HDDs
> are downright cheap any more.
>
> The thing I bought says it'll auto-backup stuff from independent machines.
> Or rather, I assume you install a utility on the individual computers and
> schedule backups. Seems pretty nifty, even if I don't plan on using it.
>
> Scott
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:26 AM Tim . via Shop-talk <
> shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> Sending this inquiry to you all since I know there are more than a few IT
>> guys in this group.....
>>
>> I bought three 512GB flash drives for archiving here at work. One locked
>> up in each of our offices and one for me to add to files as necessary as
>> files are amended. They have approximately 450GB on them.
>>
>> One of the three failed as soon as I finished filling it. I bought a
>> different brand and made a replacement copy for the safe in our Madison
>> office. A second, the same brand as the first one that failed is locked up
>> in our MKE office and will also be replaced now because the third one (the
>> one that has amended archived files) is also failing. I am having a hard
>> time retrieving the amended files before this drive takes a final crap on
>> me. It took over 15 hours to pull one 87MB file from the dying drive. I
>> can't even attempt to pull more than one file at a time. Not that this
>> should matter, but the files are mixed word, pdf, saved outlook emails and
>> miscellaneous audio or video files and possibly other items.
>>
>> What I am wondering/hoping is that someone might know of a solution to
>> this nearly impossible retrieval process. Or am I just screwed here?
>>
>> Next year we will be storing everything in the cloud so I won't have to
>> deal with this PITA process.
>>
>> Thanks
>> tim
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