"World Backup Day"

[George K]

https://9to5toys.com/2024/03/31/world-backup-day-2024-nas-tips/

This site goes on and on about the virtues of a Network Attached Storage for backup.

Being a single-user, I've never seen the need for me to have a NAS.

I'm fanatical about backup:

1. Time Machine to one hard drive
2. Carbon Copy Cloner to a different hard drive (this one includes all my media which are not on my internal drive). This backs up media as well as clones my internal drive to another external drive.
3. Cloud backup for all my documents.

Am I missing something? Does a NAS offer anything that I don't already have?

[Axtremus]

Apple's "Time Capsule," which most people used Time Machine with, was a NAS.
You just happen to use Time Machine with directly connected hard drive rather than a one connected over a network.
No, you're not missing anything for not having a NAS.

[89th]

It's funny how backups were way more important (i.e., there were more hard-drive killing crashes) like 20 years ago. Now I mainly get by with a primary back-up to the cloud (microsoft one drive, I used to use carbonite btw), and a secondary "manual" backup to an SSD every now and then (like every 2 years) just in case the cloud backup is lost.

Of course ever since I've been backing things up there hasn't been a major crash.

[taiwan_girl]

I just use a single hard drive back up

[George K]

"If it doesn't exist in three places, one of them off-site, it doesn't exist."

https://ballyhoo.co.uk/If-its-Not-in-Three-Places-it-Doesnt-Exist/

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K LOL Probably true.

This is my theory (based on absolutely nothing LOL):

No back up: 50% chance of loss of data
One on site back up: 10% chance of loss of data
Two back up (one on site and one off site): 1% chance of loss of data