Seeking thoughts on how to structure a home network.
There are a mix of computers, Windows, Mac, Linux and tablets - Android
and Apple
Serious use: accounts spreadsheets, correspondence, email.
Fun use: programming with Visual Studio for Windows, occasional card
games, FaceBook, Usenet. Trying out different Os's and network structures.
Concerns: one day my playing will cause me to lose all my data.
From what you have, I'd suggest getting away from all these local
backups.
QNAP set to some sort of redundant storage, at least one disk may die
with no issues.
Set up each device to backup itself to the QNAP using whatever fully >automated backup is best for them, ideally hourly with a history that
you can set to a month or six. Win7/10 have those built in, Linux use >whatever the QNAP supports as a backend.
On 05/12/2022 in message <jv6murFaq8eU1@mid.individual.net> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
From what you have, I'd suggest getting away from all these local
backups.
QNAP set to some sort of redundant storage, at least one disk may die
with no issues.
Set up each device to backup itself to the QNAP using whatever fully
automated backup is best for them, ideally hourly with a history that
you can set to a month or six. Win7/10 have those built in, Linux use
whatever the QNAP supports as a backend.
Many thanks Jaimie :-)
In summary I think you are saying use a grown up system with the QNAP as a file server, backed up to a second NAS. That would work very well because
the QNAP has software that will back up to a second NAS (I needed some
help in setting it up, they all use different names for the same thing)
and it's currently copying itself to the Buffalo (it's got to 65%). The
same software will backup up to a USB attached drive on a schedule as well and I will be able to access the NAS from anywhere even of the computer(s) are off.
I think I will go for a slightly lower spec QNAP (431 rather than 451,
it's £125 cheaper) as it won't have to work too hard.
Interesting deciding how to set the new one up. I have 1.52 TB of data so
it would fit on a 2 TB drive. I could run with 4 x separate drives so 3
could fail and I'd still have my backup. Otherwise RAID 10 although it
seems it's not a case of losing 2 drives and being OK, it depends on which drives you lose. I feel drawn to individual drives, there's no additional work once the schedules are set up.
Many thanks again, I think it will give me a clean set up and keep the
data away from the toys :-)
On 05/12/2022 in message <jv6murFaq8eU1@mid.individual.net> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
From what you have, I'd suggest getting away from all these local
backups.
QNAP set to some sort of redundant storage, at least one disk may die
with no issues.
Set up each device to backup itself to the QNAP using whatever fully
automated backup is best for them, ideally hourly with a history that
you can set to a month or six. Win7/10 have those built in, Linux use
whatever the QNAP supports as a backend.
Many thanks Jaimie :-)
In summary I think you are saying use a grown up system with the QNAP as a file server, backed up to a second NAS. That would work very well because
the QNAP has software that will back up to a second NAS (I needed some
help in setting it up, they all use different names for the same thing)
and it's currently copying itself to the Buffalo (it's got to 65%). The
same software will backup up to a USB attached drive on a schedule as well and I will be able to access the NAS from anywhere even of the computer(s) are off.
I think I will go for a slightly lower spec QNAP (431 rather than 451,
it's £125 cheaper) as it won't have to work too hard.
Interesting deciding how to set the new one up. I have 1.52 TB of data so
it would fit on a 2 TB drive. I could run with 4 x separate drives so 3
could fail and I'd still have my backup. Otherwise RAID 10 although it
seems it's not a case of losing 2 drives and being OK, it depends on which drives you lose. I feel drawn to individual drives, there's no additional work once the schedules are set up.
Many thanks again, I think it will give me a clean set up and keep the
data away from the toys :-)
You don't mention it but do you have a wired network or is it all wifi? If >it's all wifi you may struggle for bandwidth doing all those backups and >filesharing. I toyed with the idea but even with only one machine on a >fileshare over wifi was painful.
On 06/12/2022 in message <tmmtl4$6p80$1@dont-email.me> Chris wrote:
You don't mention it but do you have a wired network or is it all wifi? If >> it's all wifi you may struggle for bandwidth doing all those backups and
filesharing. I toyed with the idea but even with only one machine on a
fileshare over wifi was painful.
Hi Chris.
It's a Tenda Nova Mesh system (also recommended by Jaimie, there's only
one person to blame if things go wrong round here) that gets the WiFi from the incoming box to a cube on my desk which is then connected by a patch cable to a switch which has the 2 desktops and the QNAP plugged into it. Anything going by WiFi to that cube may be slower than a cabled connection but the main machines and QNAP are effectively wired.
To add to the fun I usually sit in the lounge with my monster Dell M6800
on my lap driving the desktops by RDP, it makes my brain hurt trying to
work out what route the data follows if I am using Visual Studio like that :-)
On 06/12/2022 in message <tmmtl4$6p80$1@dont-email.me> Chris wrote:
You don't mention it but do you have a wired network or is it all wifi? If >> it's all wifi you may struggle for bandwidth doing all those backups and
filesharing. I toyed with the idea but even with only one machine on a
fileshare over wifi was painful.
Hi Chris.
It's a Tenda Nova Mesh system (also recommended by Jaimie, there's only
one person to blame if things go wrong round here)
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 296 |
| Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
| Uptime: | 54:46:29 |
| Calls: | 6,650 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 12,200 |
| Messages: | 5,330,629 |