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Backing up huge amounts of critical data on a local network

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Mar 15, 2026335 views
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My father is a wedding photographer who produces around 50GB of data a week that needs backing up. He wants to guarantee the data he's backing up for at least a year. Currently he has three off the shelf NAS boxes, each with two 1TB drives in a RAID 1 config. This seemed good, but the boxes were ch…

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I still think a very reliable off-the-shelf NAS would be the best solution. Although NAS's are usually Linux/BSD based, they provide a friendly web interface and hide much of the unnecessary detail. If you do opt to build, a full Linux install may r…

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