NAS at remote location, Cloud subscription, or multiple local drives, what is Best Backup Method?

nutshellml

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Afternoon all, I'm debating reworking my backup methods and hoping for some insight or best practice, without going overboard and keeping budget in mind. I have a home PC with photos, videos, files, etc. I back up locally to a raid drive attached to my computer, I also backup to an internal drive. Now I know I need to have an off-site backup. What I did in past is bring home a drive once a month and do a full backup then bring it back to office. Wondering on possibility of another method:

1) Buy a NAS (I think that's only way to accomplish the following) putting it at an off-site location (ie. parents or relatives) connecting it to their router and using SyncBackPro to periodically backup files via FTP. I would schedule this to happen late at night to not bog down any bandwith at either location. NAS drive approx $400 8TB WD Expert Series range.

2) Subscribe to CrashPlan either $59 or $149 p/year. This would have mulitple version of files and unlimited storage.

3) Continue physically bringing a drive home once a month and doing a back up w/ SyncBackPro.

What are your thoughts on best practices? Again keeping budget in mind..

THANKS ALL!!
 
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Removable drive is always a good option. lets you have total control of the data and least expensive.
NAS-overkill
How about backup to Google Drive, same backup you do to your removable drive. I think a TB is about $10/month now.

t53186

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Removable drive is always a good option. lets you have total control of the data and least expensive.
NAS-overkill
How about backup to Google Drive, same backup you do to your removable drive. I think a TB is about $10/month now.
 
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