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Bumping this to see if anyone can help answer some new questions.
Considering a 2 bay Synology drive. If I understand NAS drives correctly, a 2 bay drive means that one drive contains the stuff you save to it, and the second drive contains duplicate files from drive 1, in case drive 1 fails. Is that correct?
Next, does it make sense to back the NAS up to an external drive?
Next, regardless of whether I back up the NAS or not, I still have two computers - iMac and MBP - that will have files and other stuff that needs to get backed up to a TimeMachine drive that is connected to the iMac. It always backs the iMac up; I have to plug in the MBP periodically to back it up.
Are there easier ways to do this? To keep the majority of files on a NAS for centralized access, and remote access from the web, but to also easily back up two computers to something efficiently?
- Well, that's what RAID 0 or 1 is. You can have it mirror (2nd backup copy) or not do that and have the extra space.fyoucher1
- If you store data on the NAS that's not anywhere else, might be best to have a backup of that :)fyoucher1
- Easier way: Pay for online backup, worth every penny. I use BackBlaze, which backs up all my connected drives and iMacPro.fyoucher1
- ^ do bothformed