One Mans Backup Strategy
But that’s not all! Next is an Intel NAS RAID-5 Server which has 4 500GB hard-drives configured as RAID-5 which does full-system backups and backups of all other purchased software, music and any other important data that Ian has. These full system backups are generated using the software Acronis True Image Home which runs on each workstation.
Finally Ian has also recently just installed a Windows Home Server on his network to determine it’s efficiency.
As Ian states:
Does this all sound paranoid? Possibly? Overkill? Probably? But then again, I take comfort in the fact knowing that my data is secure and redundantly stored in the event of failure. I say again – hard drives fail! It’s just a matter of time. Have you backed up your data lately?
What’s your opinion, what do you reckon, overkill?
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How many of those backups are stored offsite? All the redundancy in the world won’t help if your house burns down.
I will say though that his backup solution seems a bit paranoid and yeah, it is overkill.
I don’t believe it is. I still think that one cannot totally rely on WHS for the backup. Why? How does one recover from a customer database backup corruption / disk failure? Currently, this is one of the major exposure of WHS. Secondly, lack of daily backups (versioning) of the WHS shares themselves is also great backup security hole. The idea of attaching and detaching an external USB disk just to do the backup is …. unrealistic, but corruption / deletion of a file from a WHS share very likely. RAID-5 is just some extra level of hardware based protection, that cost extra money. If one can afford it, why not do it?
If I am wrong any any of my thinking please do let me know.