![]() ![]() This time, I wanted to eliminate the sneaker net, remove any effort on my part beyond setup, and maintain control over the data. So, if I forgot to take a drive, the backup would slowly grow old and less useful. ![]() Being human, rotating backups wasn’t always the first thing on my mind and I don’t make the trip very often. However, the biggest issue was: I had to remember to take and actually rotate the drives. Of course, driving the backup drives back and forth wasn’t ideal. ![]() The backup strategy worked well and I could probably recreate something similar on my new Synology platform, but it had a few drawbacks that I wanted to overcome. A bonus was that I always had a backup in cold storage, which is essential for protecting yourself from ransomware. Whenever I made the 100+ mile trip to my parent’s house, I’d pull the current drive, physically carry it with me, lock it in their fire proof safe, then take back the dated drive. Previously, I was using CrashPlan to run backups to a set of hard drives that I would rotate through a Thermaltake BlackX docking station. After letting the process gain my trust, it was time to figure out how to ship backups off site. Configuring DSM’s Hyper Backup to run local backups to an external USB Seagate 4TB drive was a breeze. Especially after migrating from an outdated HP ProLiant MicroServer. I’ve been running a Synology DS918+ for network data storage for a few months, which has exceeded all of my expectations. ![]() If there’s a data loss, I can only blame myself. To me, with the amount of data I’m storing, the piece of mind is worth the cost. I wanted control over everything and to not rely on a cloud provider to store off site backups. Given the amount of security breaches in the news recently, I thought it was time to bring my personal data backups back under my control. Disclosure: some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. ![]()
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