Mac laptops backup to the NAS using TimeMachine.
Windows laptops backup to the NAS using Backvp2 (using its own scheduler).
iOS phones use PhotoSync to sync photos to the NAS.
Various real and virtual Linux boxes sync to the NAS using rsync in cron.
Music is kept on the NAS, and served via Roon+ARC (atm, anyway).
The NAS has four drive slots. I use two in an LVM RAID mirror for the primary storage volume, formatted with btrfs. A third slot holds the "offsite" backup drive, which takes a btrfs snapshot every morning at 4am. Every month I send the offsite drive to my friend (who sends my other offsite drive back).
I also take irregular Carbon Copy Cloner snapshots of the Macs to an external drive, in case the SSD dies. This makes a simple restore of the OS and apps quick, and then I can pull the latest daily snapshot of the home directories over that.
There's also an archive folder on the NAS for stuff that's no longer live on any laptops, but I want to keep. Old projects, old scanned documents, etc.
I'd love to have a proper hierarchical storage system set up, but I haven't looked into how possible that is in the last few years (and last time I looked, the solutions weren't great).
That's pretty close to what I was planning, minus the Rysnc and with Borg instead.
I'm surprised at how many people are swapping off-site drives with friends, that is actually really cool.
I still haven't decided on if I want to do upgrade to RAID or not yet.
Just using one drive as a backup for the other seems like it has more flexibility, you can upgrade just one drive at a time, make use of the extra space with mismatched storage, etc, but upgrading both drives at once might be a better plan...
I have a pair of (different) 8TB drives in the mirror: one Seagate, one Western Digital, both NAS-oriented models.
The offsite drives are both Seagate 16TB. As the content on the live mirror changes they slowly fill up with snapshots.
I’m getting close to needing new drives, but I haven’t decided what to buy yet. The mirror has about 1TB left. I’ll probably change it to 16TB, and the backups to 24 or maybe 28? Not cheap though.
Mac laptops backup to the NAS using TimeMachine. Windows laptops backup to the NAS using Backvp2 (using its own scheduler). iOS phones use PhotoSync to sync photos to the NAS. Various real and virtual Linux boxes sync to the NAS using rsync in cron. Music is kept on the NAS, and served via Roon+ARC (atm, anyway).
The NAS has four drive slots. I use two in an LVM RAID mirror for the primary storage volume, formatted with btrfs. A third slot holds the "offsite" backup drive, which takes a btrfs snapshot every morning at 4am. Every month I send the offsite drive to my friend (who sends my other offsite drive back).
I also take irregular Carbon Copy Cloner snapshots of the Macs to an external drive, in case the SSD dies. This makes a simple restore of the OS and apps quick, and then I can pull the latest daily snapshot of the home directories over that.
There's also an archive folder on the NAS for stuff that's no longer live on any laptops, but I want to keep. Old projects, old scanned documents, etc.
I'd love to have a proper hierarchical storage system set up, but I haven't looked into how possible that is in the last few years (and last time I looked, the solutions weren't great).