{"id":111,"date":"2010-08-26T22:52:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T02:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2010-08-26T22:59:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T02:59:44","slug":"backup-strategy-for-a-home-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/2010\/08\/backup-strategy-for-a-home-nas\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup strategy for a home NAS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I bought myself a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.synology.com\/enu\/products\/DS110j\/index.php\">Synology DS110j<\/a> along with a 1 TB hard drive. I also took the opportunity to upgrade a segment of my network to Gigabit speed with a cheap D-Link switch. My computer and the NAS are now on that segment.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I still haven&#8217;t decided what my strategy is gonna be. For now, my computer contains all the &#8220;master&#8221; files and a scheduled job synchronizes my computer with my NAS every now and then. This method has a few important advantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All my files are backed up<\/li>\n<li>I access my files at full speed (local hard drive)<\/li>\n<li>Deleted files are actually sent to the Recycle Bin<\/li>\n<li>No need to migrate my iTunes library and my Lightroom catalogs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only drawback is that my files are not live on the NAS. This means that if I download a video and want to watch it immediately on the media box in my living room, I have to run the sync job manually.<\/p>\n<p>This also means that if I turn off my computer before the sync job runs, new files won&#8217;t be sent to the NAS until the computer is turned back on.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that, I tried to switch roles: the NAS would store the master files and my computer would only keep backups. In normal usage, I would never use the files stored on my computer, I would always work on the NAS. All the different <em>My Documents<\/em>, <em>My Music<\/em>, <em>My Pictures<\/em>, (etc.) folders would be mapped on the NAS. This has a few drawbacks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would always access my files at Gigabit speed instead of SATA speed<\/li>\n<li>Deleted files would really be deleted (not sent to the Recycle Bin)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, I also found out that Windows 7 won&#8217;t let me add networked folders to Libraries. So I would loose that functionality, which I actually like.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m back to my original strategy: masters stored on my computer and files backed up to the NAS on a regular basis. The NAS will always be a bit &#8220;behind&#8221;, but that&#8217;s the best solution I found.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a NAS? I would like to hear different point of views on that subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I bought myself a Synology DS110j along with a 1 TB hard drive. I also took the opportunity to upgrade a segment of my network to Gigabit speed with a cheap D-Link switch. My computer and the NAS are now on that segment. Now, I still haven&#8217;t decided what my strategy is gonna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}