As a person who used to work for emc supporting g retrospect. Please please please please do not rely on that huge steaming pile of crap software.
It seemed to work backing up my old computers. I no longer use that feature.
Yes. Redundancy is key. Literally a case of two is one and one is none. If you lose half a RAID1 you still have your data. You lose your single drive, you have no data. just use your best judgement; is the cost of a second drive worth more than what you are putting on the single drive? If not, suck it up.
And technically you can build it out with cheap disks if you are RAIDing it. Who cares if a cheap drive fails if you are built with redundancy.
If I'm rolling my own I use FreeNAS.
3,2,1
Three copies of your data
Two onsite
One off site.
I don't think I have a spare pc powerful enough to run FreeNAS...all my extra pc are garbage/old
I have customers running Carbonite Pro. Gotta spend the money for the highest tier because the cheaper versions dont save multimedia files. So they'll only upload documents and maybe pictures and music. But definitely not videos.Recommendation for off site backup storage?
Recommendation for off site backup storage?
I'm sorry but I don't.
I use my Google drive for something's.
And I back up to a server at a buddies house for other stuffs.