{"id":146,"date":"2015-09-27T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2016-01-01T17:31:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:31:17","slug":"fenbackup-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"FenBackup Through the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is more of a tour of the past six years or so of various iterations of Fenimore backup solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solution 1. \u00a0Soon after I got married\u00a0I found that between my wife and I we had around 1TB of movies, images, and documents from school. \u00a0We were also accruing around 5-10GB a week on family videos and pictures (hey, 1080p video cameras are readily\u00a0available, and generate fairly big, hi-res videos). \u00a0 Around Oct 2010 the price of 1.5TB drives was pretty low &#8211; around $80 each (this was right before the huge price spike a year or so later due to some disaster in the Pacific). \u00a0So I built a 3TB software-RAID 6 array with linux and a large tower. \u00a0I also had two 3TB RAID 5 arrays that plugged into hot-swap bays. \u00a0I periodically rotated these arrays to an offsite location. \u00a0By &#8220;periodically,&#8221; I mean it was every week or so for a month, then exponentially decayed to about once or twice a year towards the end. \u00a0<a href=\"\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-147\" src=\"\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes.jpg\" alt=\"backup_schemes\" width=\"523\" height=\"677\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Solution 2. Enter the QNAP. \u00a0By this point I had upgraded to 3TB drives in my consolidated linux solution. \u00a0I took those drives out of my linux box and moved them into a 4-bay QNAP (TS-453 Pro). \u00a0I found that all of these 3TB WD Green drives started dying. \u00a0As I write this I am actually not sure what the heck happened, but soon I found myself buying some 5TB WD RED (NAS-grade) drives to replace the WD Greens. \u00a0These have worked much better. \u00a0This solution has also been nice because anytime I need to do work on my linux box or on the NAS it doesn&#8217;t take down my whole network. \u00a0It was also nice because I ended up making all my files accessible (in theory) via QNAPs cloud software. \u00a0The only flaw is that I tried to continue my offsite backup scheme wherein a drive was cycled to an offsite location; this actually was worse with QNAP, because QNAP doesn&#8217;t like the drives to be removed.\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-148\" src=\"\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes2.jpg\" alt=\"backup_schemes2\" width=\"525\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes2.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes2-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Solution 3: Redundant QNAPs over VPN. \u00a0This is basically an upgrade to my QNAP solution where I bought a cheaper 2-bay QNAP. \u00a0The second QNAP fulfills my offsite backup goals. It sits on the other side of the country and is available 24\/7 for my main qnap to push a copy of my data to it.<a href=\"\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-149\" src=\"\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes3.jpg\" alt=\"backup_schemes3\" width=\"519\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes3.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes3-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/backup_schemes3-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall I&#8217;d say this solution is just about flawless. \u00a0It at least\u00a0<em>seems<\/em> secure, works\u00a0well, etc. \u00a0I found, for example, I could get to my files when I am not home. \u00a0I was even able to stream video from my qnap via PLEX to my laptop in my hotel; this turned out to be useful, for example, when my daughter wanted to watch tangled, which\u00a0worked fairly well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is more of a tour of the past six years or so of various iterations of Fenimore backup solutions. &nbsp; Solution 1. \u00a0Soon after I got married\u00a0I found that between my wife and I we had around 1TB of movies, images, and documents from school. \u00a0We were also accruing around 5-10GB a week on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FenBackup Through the Years<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}