I was feeling excited as I was just setting up a new website when my excitment was met with a somewhat loud clicking noise from within my tower. When I tried to save one of the images I was working on my heart started to pound hard as Windows froze and my worst fear was realized.
My data drive just died. Since I was of a mind set that this can't happen to me I had no backups or redundancy in place. While my data drive is in the hands of data recovery gods I turn to this forums to figure out what kind of a solution I should invest in to prevent a hardware error from destroying my data.
Storytelling aside...
Since this happend earlier today my research lead me from RAID to Storage Spaces, NASs, cloud storage and all the possible faults that this systems have. First a disclaimer: I am aware that RAID is not a backup system (not the title). Now with that out of the way... Since I don't have an unlimited funding I'm aware that you can't prevent every user and hardware error on the planet. So I decided that what I'm interested in is preventing as many possible hardware errors and use my own head to prevent the user ones.
I also have certain limitations which limit my options in backup technology:
- My internet connection is 30Mbps/3Mbps which means that cloud storage is a no-go (and upgrading the speed significantly sadly isn't an option).
- My internal networking structure is still on 100Mbps and with the prices of NAS, drives and at least a 1Gbps structure it is unfortunately out of my budget.
This leads me to what I would currently consider a somewhat reliable solution for file archiving:
- Storage Spaces Mirrored drives to protect me from drive death
- weekly or on demand backup to the third drive in the system to protect me from data corruption
And finally to my questions:
1) Is this a viable combination in a windows environment?
2) What software to use for the backup part?
3) What size of a drive would you recommend for the backup part (Mirrored drives would be 2 or 4 TB)?
Thank you all for the read and any help you can provide
Regards
My data drive just died. Since I was of a mind set that this can't happen to me I had no backups or redundancy in place. While my data drive is in the hands of data recovery gods I turn to this forums to figure out what kind of a solution I should invest in to prevent a hardware error from destroying my data.
Storytelling aside...
Since this happend earlier today my research lead me from RAID to Storage Spaces, NASs, cloud storage and all the possible faults that this systems have. First a disclaimer: I am aware that RAID is not a backup system (not the title). Now with that out of the way... Since I don't have an unlimited funding I'm aware that you can't prevent every user and hardware error on the planet. So I decided that what I'm interested in is preventing as many possible hardware errors and use my own head to prevent the user ones.
I also have certain limitations which limit my options in backup technology:
- My internet connection is 30Mbps/3Mbps which means that cloud storage is a no-go (and upgrading the speed significantly sadly isn't an option).
- My internal networking structure is still on 100Mbps and with the prices of NAS, drives and at least a 1Gbps structure it is unfortunately out of my budget.
This leads me to what I would currently consider a somewhat reliable solution for file archiving:
- Storage Spaces Mirrored drives to protect me from drive death
- weekly or on demand backup to the third drive in the system to protect me from data corruption
And finally to my questions:
1) Is this a viable combination in a windows environment?
2) What software to use for the backup part?
3) What size of a drive would you recommend for the backup part (Mirrored drives would be 2 or 4 TB)?
Thank you all for the read and any help you can provide
Regards