HACKER Q&A
📣 delgaudm

What strategies should I consider for backing up my home NAS


I've recently acquired a NAS (QNAP, if that matters) to help manage the data my business generates - primarily video and audio files and projects. What strategies should I consider at the outset to make offsite backups reliably, affordably, and hopefully automated for this new device?

  👤 aborsy Accepted Answer ✓
A first concern is how to actually secure it.

There have been numerous vulnerabilities, back doors, default passwords etc in Qnap products; search HN.

In some cases devices have been attacked with ransomware even in private networks (no ports were opened to internet) through UPnP.

👤 cpach
The 3-2-1 rule might be a good starting point: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3527303/for-secure-data...
👤 mcotton
Backblaze is great for cloud backups. They do not backup network connected drives but will backup drives connected locally.

I'm not pretending a network drive is local, but actually mirror the important data from my NAS to a locally connected 14TB USB drive. It stays connected all the time.

I have some cron jobs that run rsync scripts, but the data that needs to be backed up rarely changes. This gives me 30TB on my NAS, of which, 14TB are backed up in backblaze for $60/year.

I can make this work in my situation because the items I want backed up are less than the working space I want on my NAS.