Seagate Backup Died
Hello-My USB Seagate drive just died without warning. This is very disappointing as the drive has low mileage. It lived in my desk drawer and only came out for weekly backups. Luckily I didn't lose anything and just backed up my HDD to a 128GB USB stick. I have less than 70 GB on my HDD and don't think I would ever need more than 100GB storage.
I need advice on replacement storage: either Cloud or another physical disk(s) with some level of redundancy. Cloud storage would ideally have be US-based for legal reasons. I have a decent router and could use NAS. But the downside is lack would be redundancy unless I used a multi-disk solution.
Any advice would be welcome!
Why not get another HDD?
Maybe this is too heavy duty for you but I use a combination of HDD and LTO. Everything at home backs up over the network to a centralized backup server running BorgBackup. Backups happen every 30 minutes so it's always current. The backup server alerts me if a machine missed a backup. The backups are periodically dumped to tape (LTO) and then stored in a fire-resistant safe which is rated to maintain an internal temperature low enough for the tapes to survive when exposed to a fire up 1,200F/~649C for 2 hours. I figured that 2 hours was more than long enough for the fire department to get to my house and put out a fire. In reality the fire station is 5 minutes away from my house.
The backup server is also configured to be append-only when it's being accessed over the network. This is my defense to things like e.g. ransomware or malware that might try to encrypt or delete the backups too, in addition to the offline backups in the safe. The tape backups are also encrypted so I periodically take some offsite. Overall I think it's a fairly comprehensive strategy against data loss from HDD failure or fire or robbery or ransomware or malware.
Thanks Jxself. Sounds impressive.