<html><head></head><body 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 Unless of course, RAID is obsolete these days.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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