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I am looking for a failsafe backup for my data.

Ive got about 3TB currently on a Netgear Readynas that I use as a small business server and I back it up to a similar Raid NAS offsite. A week ago the OS or firmware for the raid got corrupted and it was at exactly the same time I was doing maintenance on offsite raid...$hit!

Anyway, the NAS was restored with some advanced tech support, but it made me a little nervous. If the OS/firmware on the hardware raid fails then I cannot just slide the drives into a new system.

I was thinking of doing a straight up Windows raid zero so that if everything fails i can still get the data off of the hard drives.

Is there a better idea or am I missing something.

Thanks
 
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There's no such thing as foolproof.
The best approach is to expect disaster and plan accordingly.
Your offsite nas is a good start. I like multiple copies of data and suggest a minumum of 3 so that if one fails you're not left with just 1 vulnerable copy. The more copies you have the better off you are.
- I would suggest always keeping a copy on your main pc. Harddrives are cheap. 2TB for about $80. Have one added to your pc if you need more room.
- Backup to the work Nas
- Backup to the offsite NAS
- lastly backup to something that can be disconnected. No cables period. The last thing you want is to find that a lightning strike took out everything.
I like DVD's for this. Archival quality if you need longer than a year or two...
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There's no such thing as foolproof.
The best approach is to expect disaster and plan accordingly.
Your offsite nas is a good start. I like multiple copies of data and suggest a minumum of 3 so that if one fails you're not left with just 1 vulnerable copy. The more copies you have the better off you are.
- I would suggest always keeping a copy on your main pc. Harddrives are cheap. 2TB for about $80. Have one added to your pc if you need more room.
- Backup to the work Nas
- Backup to the offsite NAS
- lastly backup to something that can be disconnected. No cables period. The last thing you want is to find that a lightning strike took out everything.
I like DVD's for this. Archival quality if you need longer than a year or two storage on them. DVD's are cheap and reliable (always burn with write verification on so you are sure they wrote ok). Other than DVD's I would suggest getting a tape backup solution, which would be alot more $$
 
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