Hi All,
A few years ago I decided I was never going to have a (personal) data loss issue again, and purchased a NAS for my home.
I have upgraded it a couple of times over the years, and currently it has 10TB of storage on it.
(2x 4TB RAID 1, 2x 6TB RAID 1)
This has given me a certain piece of mind with regard to hardware failure; but as is not reiterated enough, redundancy is not backup.
This has been bugging me of late, especially because if I accidentally delete something on the NAS drives, or some other unforeseen manipulation of the data, my redundancy is not going to help me one bit.
This leads me to the following question: What's a decent backup solution in the age of such large disks.
I have looked into online backups; but being capped at 100GB a month, it would take 100 months of full cap usage to back up all my data.
The only other thing that comes to mind is using tape-backup.
I am OK with the data being on 'slow storage', and the tape solution appeals to me as AFAIK they are designed for 'long term data storage', so perhaps may suffer less from bit-rot than other solutions.
The price, though, is not very appealing; especially if I were trying to minimise tape usage with something like LTO6, the drives themselves costing 3k, not to mention the tapes.
These are usually geared at more server type environments too; requiring a SAS connection.
So IT pro's, what's a geek to do about backup in the age where it's totally realistic to have ten's of terabytes of personal storage ?
Is there some magical unicorn solution I am not aware of?