<div dir="ltr">Scott-<div><br></div><div>Look at Hybrid Backup Sync on your QNAP for automatic backup capability. I'd look at a combination of local USB drive<div>as a backup destination, as well as BackBlaze B2 (also via HBS). They're one of the least expensive cloud storage</div><div>providers out there, and they've been excellent for me thus far. </div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div>fiddling to keep it working, unlike my 1986 BMW R80RT.</div><div><br></div><div>-Peter</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 2:41 PM Scott Hall via Shop-talk <<a href="mailto:shop-talk@autox.team.net" target="_blank">shop-talk@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br>Scott</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:26 AM Tim . via Shop-talk <<a href="mailto:shop-talk@autox.team.net" target="_blank">shop-talk@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Sending this inquiry to you all since I know there are more than a few IT guys in this group.....</div>
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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.</div>
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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. </div>
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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? </div>
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Next year we will be storing everything in the cloud so I won't have to deal with this PITA process. </div>
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