[lug] (Small) Network backup recommendations

[Bear Giles]

There's always sticking an external drive on your router's USB port and
mounting it as a network share.

One thing to be aware of is that there have been many cases where a system
got hit with encryption malware... that also encrypted the backups since
they were mounted as a network share. (Or a directly attached external
drive.) That means you may want to do something like write to a shared
folder but have a cron job that copies the backup to an unshared area.

Bear

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 8:44 AM Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 May 2021 08:24:22 -0600
> Mike Witt wrote:
>
> > Any recommendations for a small network backup device?
> >
> > I've got a mixture of two or three linux machines and one or two
> > windows machines. If I add up all the USB sticks I'm currently backing
> > them up to it only comes to about 5 TB.
>
> "Only" 5TB? For that value of "small" a 4-bay Synology NAS would work well.
> Assuming you aren't filling those sticks up, maybe 4 2TB drives in the NAS
> would be plenty. I've seen articles about rolling your own NAS on a Pi or
> other SBC, with external drives.
>
> Do you have a budget in mind?
>
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