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  • (Score: 2) by schad on Tuesday September 08 2015, @04:56PM

    by schad (2398) on Tuesday September 08 2015, @04:56PM (#233831)

    So, get a second NAS and...do what with it?

    Just unplug it. A one-inch air gap is enough to protect you against the most common class of problems: botched firmware upgrades, mistakenly replacing the wrong drive, clicking the wrong button in some GUI, and so on.

    Yeah, if your house burns down you're screwed. But... if your house burns down you're screwed. I doubt the integrity of your data will be at the forefront of your mind.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday September 08 2015, @07:02PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday September 08 2015, @07:02PM (#233885) Journal

    Just unplug it. A one-inch air gap is enough to protect you against the most common class of problems: botched firmware upgrades, mistakenly replacing the wrong drive, clicking the wrong button in some GUI, and so on.

    That's what the incremental backups are for. The backups of those backups that I'm planning now is specifically for if my house burns down or something like that. These are very different systems running different distros so I doubt they're running much common firmware and they never update together, and I won't be replacing the drive on multiple systems at the same time, and I don't use a GUI tool for backups -- I have an automated script which I don't screw with. Sure, I guess you could come up with some stupid way I could nuke every drive in my home all at once, but it would be pretty difficult. I think I'm more likely to burn the place down.

    Yeah, if your house burns down you're screwed. But... if your house burns down you're screwed. I doubt the integrity of your data will be at the forefront of your mind.

    I can get a new place to live, I can get new computers and new furniture and everything else -- it'd be some work, it'd be expensive, but it would be a simple enough process. But I can't just go on Amazon and buy my data back. That's the one thing in my home that cannot ever be replaced. And there are thousands of hours of work on there. Believe it or not, my data might actually be the most valuable thing I own.