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RAID

From: Dan (HERMAND)11 Apr 2014 10:47
To: ANT_THOMAS 7 of 16
41026.7 In reply to 41026.1
Have you considered something like Crashplan for backing up. RAID offers some redundancy, but it's not magic. And remember, when you swap a broken drive, it's going to stress the others. I've seen loads of RAID 5 rebuilds take another drive out, leaving no choice but a restore from backup.
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From: ANT_THOMAS11 Apr 2014 11:11
To: Dan (HERMAND) 8 of 16
41026.8 In reply to 41026.7
That looks interesting too. Lately I've had no interest in backing up everything, with only doing select folders with Karen's Replicator nightly to maximise my storage with a bit of security but drive failures have annoyed me enough and I like the idea of pulling a dead drive from an array and sticking a new one in without having to try and do loads of data recovery. I definitely see your point on stress to drives on a rebuild.

I've not even pulled my most recent dead drive yet.

My other problem is that I need to massively sort out my storage in general because I'm not even sure what I've lost on that drive.
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From: ANT_THOMAS11 Apr 2014 11:32
To: ALL9 of 16
41026.9
Well the drive was a 500 GB drive and I have 326 GB of data from it backed up, turns out there was a lot of photos on it, phew!
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From: ANT_THOMAS21 Jul 2014 12:17
To: Dan (HERMAND) 10 of 16
41026.10 In reply to 41026.7
I've just started using Crashplan on the 30 day trial. Looks ideal really now I've got a reasonably decent upload speed. Price isn't bad either, especially since I'll only be using it on one computer (my server) so I can go for the cheaper package.
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From: Serg (NUKKLEAR)22 Jul 2014 08:48
To: ANT_THOMAS 11 of 16
41026.11 In reply to 41026.10
Ooh, interesting! Do keep us updated, I looked at it before and I just wasn't totally convinced it would be as painless as it should be.
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From: ANT_THOMAS22 Jul 2014 13:06
To: Serg (NUKKLEAR) 12 of 16
41026.12 In reply to 41026.11
Well the initial upload process is definitely going to be the hardest (or longest) bit.

I've currently /only/ selected about 500GB of data, going to take days.
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From: ANT_THOMAS29 Jul 2014 12:43
To: ALL13 of 16
41026.13
A little bit disappointed with the upload speed.

Seems to go under 2MBit/s which is a bit rubbish considering my upload bandwidth is over 10Mbit.

11 days to go !!
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From: ANT_THOMAS19 Aug 2014 09:20
To: ALL14 of 16
41026.14
The 30 day trial has now expired.

I guess it's quite difficult to really test how good or bad the service is without a disaster. Currently got about 500 GB backed up.

I guess it's worth a punt for 12 months and I think I've got a 20% off code somewhere.
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From: Dan (HERMAND)19 Aug 2014 10:26
To: ANT_THOMAS 15 of 16
41026.15 In reply to 41026.14
You can pay monthly and just cancel if you change your mind. I've not had to restore much off it, but I've grabbed a few files back and it's always been fine for me.
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From: ANT_THOMAS19 Aug 2014 16:26
To: Dan (HERMAND) 16 of 16
41026.16 In reply to 41026.15
I just went for the full 12 months. Just leave it in the background and assume it's all there.
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