Squar0L
Cadet
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- Sep 24, 2016
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Now that Black Friday is on us, I wonder if I should buy more HDD or start using BackBlaze. This is my situation: I'm backing up two Macs with 500GB disks on each on time machine to a 4TB NAS. There are about 1TB of long-term archives, very infrequently accessed. My bad is that the NAS has a single drive. I see three options:
1. Do nothing. It will risk losing my long-term archives. Mac TM backups considered ephemeral. Cost is $0.
2. Beef up NAS to proper redundancy with 2 more 4TB HDD. Do not address storage growth. Costs $300.
3. Use current 4TB NAS as quick local TM backup and archive cache, delegate replication and long-term storage to BackBlaze. I have 250mbps down/10 up Internet. Costs an average $150 a year.
It seems #3 is the way to go, I wonder if I missed any important point.
1. Do nothing. It will risk losing my long-term archives. Mac TM backups considered ephemeral. Cost is $0.
2. Beef up NAS to proper redundancy with 2 more 4TB HDD. Do not address storage growth. Costs $300.
3. Use current 4TB NAS as quick local TM backup and archive cache, delegate replication and long-term storage to BackBlaze. I have 250mbps down/10 up Internet. Costs an average $150 a year.
It seems #3 is the way to go, I wonder if I missed any important point.
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