NAS thoughts

John Willmott posted:

I have a QNAP NAS (Asset) exclusively for serving music to my NDX and I have a Netgear NAS for general duties such as Time Machine backups for all our MAC kit, a photo repository, document archives and the like.  Each NAS has its own USB backup drive and backup schedules.

I can't help but think that this is a waste of resources .. the QNAP could effectively handle the whole workload leaving the Netgear as the backup resource for the QNAP.  I'm just a tad leery about putting all my eggs in one basket so to speak .. 

Thoughts ?  How are yours configured ?

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Why do you think it is a waste of resources? Separation of concerns is the key for tackling complexity. If you think that having all data management tasks done by the QNAP would be a simplification of your setup or workflow, this is another issue, of course. But I would not make a change only for the sake of saving resources.  

It does seem a little OTT,  maybe one too many NAS especially when you add separate USB backups for each NAS.   But  looking at my setup, its not that much different,  Music on NAS with USB back up (plus USB copies)  All other on PC and/or laptop has HDD & Cloud back up.

I have 2 NASes, a single bay 4TB Synology and a dual bay RAIDed 2*4TB Synology. The single bay acts as the main house NAS (having started life as the backup for my HDX), the music folder gets rsynced to the twin bay which acts as the primary music server for the NDX and Qbs, and does nothing else. I use a 4TB USB drive as a backup, just straight file copies of the music folder and the files I need backed up from the rest of the NAS. I work from home, so a few hour file copy isn't a problem, I set it going when I start work, it's finished before I stop, easier than watching Synology hyper backup be clunky. That USB drive I then keep at another house. When my file system gets nearer 2TB so I can't cycle 2 copies on the disk, I'll get another removable.

To the op -

you can also consider the following - each NAS has a backup of the other nas's current set of data.

the backup could happen at a time when you are guaranteed not to be listening to music.

I have all my data on a PC. This is backed up to the NAS. Except for the data stored by the unitiserv on the nas. This is backed up on the PC. :-)

I use synctoy to replicate the data between the two nodes.

I have 2 NASs and a Vortexbox.  The vortexbox sounds better than the NASs did and the NASs back each other up.  The NASs hold my music and family data (pictures).  

I would literally have to lose 3 hard drives at the same time to lose data. 

Be careful though / when I first got the NAS I had it up on a shelf - the shelf crashed down / and physically destroyed both hard drives in the NAS. :-)

John Willmott posted:

I have a QNAP NAS (Asset) exclusively for serving music to my NDX and I have a Netgear NAS for general duties such as Time Machine backups for all our MAC kit, a photo repository, document archives and the like.  Each NAS has its own USB backup drive and backup schedules.

I can't help but think that this is a waste of resources .. the QNAP could effectively handle the whole workload leaving the Netgear as the backup resource for the QNAP.  I'm just a tad leery about putting all my eggs in one basket so to speak .. 

Thoughts ?  How are yours configured ?

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Indeed, I use one NAS to back up another. The backup NAS wakes up once a week at 2 in the morning and performs an incremental backup of the main NAS.. sends me a status and confirmation email of each share backed up and then goes back to sleep again. I also ensure the main and backup NAS are on a UPS along with the connecting data switch.. that has saved me from possible data corruption when backing up twice now, and I have successfully had to partially recover from a backup as well with no issue... so it all seems to work fine and is efficient from a power consumption point of view.

Thank you all for the thoughts you've given me (especially the shelf management tip:  MM) .. 

John Willmott posted:

Thank you all for the thoughts you've given me (especially the shelf management tip:  MM) .. 

 

You're welcome! Point was - don't put both NASes on the same shelf. :-)

One  ripper/nas    2 x 3tera  and  qnap 210 2x3 tera   both mirrored.   both with separate back ups .  the zone ripper feds the ndx  . the qnap 210 feeds jj rivers .  Never had any problems for years fingers x