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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/kippykipsquare on 2024-01-23 03:26:43+00:00.
Hello. I’m very new to this and if I’m at the wrong place, I’m sorry and would appreciate where I should ask.
I’m trying to help my family (3 computers) to have a backup solution that is pretty easy, I think.
We have 3 computers (maybe 2-4 tb of space - including external drives) and I would like to be able to completely back them up and if the computer somehow dies, I can use the backup to restore everything (hopefully even the programs and Windows).
We are not doing any business so just family stuff (files, pdfs, photos and videos of trips) and I would like to completely backup the computers every week to a NAS and then mid week back up again to an external drive for redundancy. And also get Backblaze on the computers for backup online.
My questions are:
- Should I buy a simple 2 bay or 4 bay Synology and use their Active Backup for the computers to it? Or should I build something with an old computer (I have an old i3 2nd gen laptop or an i3 4th gen old Acer desktop.).
- If I go with Synology, how many bays should I get? 2 min since I want to mirror the drives for safe keeping. Or should I go with 4 bays?
- I am not familiar with software. If I go with Synology, does it have software to make a backup to an external drive? Or if I build my own, what should I use software wise? Open Media Vault? TrueNAS?
Thanks for any suggestion you have.