<div dir="ltr">I know this is not really an answer to the question but I've spun up a small server on AWS with some storage that I snapshot every 6 hours.. i installed 'owncloud' on the server and i have an owncloud client on my laptop and my iphone.. really happy with it.. share the space with the whole family. I prepaid for the server on AWS greatly reducing the cost of running it..<div><br></div><div>Happy to provide more info on request.</div><div><br></div><div>J.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:10 PM <a href="mailto:bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net">bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net</a> <<a href="mailto:bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net">bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="zoom:0%"><div dir="auto">Nuts, what I meant was NAS. There's open media vault, are there others that "easy enough" for relative beginners?<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 8, 2021, at 7:35 PM, Bruce Labitt <<a href="mailto:bdlabitt@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdlabitt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">For the second time in 3 months I have had a computer failure. Oddly, it was a PS on the motherboard both times. (Two different MB's.) Fortunately the disks were ok. I'm living on borrowed time. Next time, I may not be that lucky. <div><br></div><div>Need a file server system with some sort of RAID redundancy. I want to backup 2 main computers, plus photos. Maybe this RPI4 too, since that's what I'm running on, due to the second failure. If this SSD goes, I'm gonna be a sad puppy. This is for home use, so we are not talking Exabytes. I'm thinking about 2-4TB of RAID. Unless of course, RAID is obsolete these days. Honestly, I find some of the levels of RAID confusing. I want something that will survive a disk failure (or two) out of the array. Have any ideas, or can you point me to some place that discusses this somewhat intelligently?</div><div><br></div><div>Are there reasonable systems that one can put together oneself these days? Can I repurpose an older PC for this purpose? Or an RPI4? What are the gotchas of going this way?</div><div><br></div><div>I want to be able to set up a daily rsync or equivalent so we will lose as little as possible. At the moment, I'm not thinking about surviving fire or disaster. Maybe I should, but I suspect the costs balloon considerably. I do not want to backup to the cloud because, plain and simple, I don't trust it to be fully secure.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any and all suggestions. </div></div>
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