[lug] (Small) Network backup recommendations

[Glenn Murray]

I've tried repeatedly to get USB drives, attached to my home router,
to back up computers on the network, but have never been able to
get reliable backups using rsync.

I've tried with Netgear and TP-Link routers using Western Digital USB
drives.  The Netgear router was unusably bad in recognizing the drives.
The TP-Link has a nice UI, but rsync gets bogged down and ends up
corrupting permissions on the target drive.
The corruption requiresreformatting the drive (Fat32 or NTFS of HDF+,
in my case; the routers don't support ext4.  The sources are hundreds
of GB, and the target is about 1.7 TB.

I've ended up carrying one of the drives to the computers and using
rsync directly off their USB jacks, which is solid.

Cheers,
Glenn


On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 9:15 AM Mike Witt <msg2mw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I guess "small" is in the eye of the beholder. Actually, for me,
> my needs are "average" :-)
>
> > Do you have a budget in mind?
>
> Well, I was getting ready to spend about $300 replacing all the misc
> memory sticks with a couple of USB hard drives. But if I could get
> something that would attach to the network instead. Maybe up to $500 or
> so?
>
> > 4-bay Synology NAS
>
> Am I reading the spec correctly that this is a bit over $500 without
> any actual disks?
> Maybe the 2 bay version could be the type of thing I'm looking for.
>
> Have you actually used this device? Everything I look at has a number
> of reviews from people unable to get it to work very well. And there's
> always the question of whether it's sort of expecting to work only with
> Windows.
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