Looking for folder synching systems...dropbox? google drive? etc...

[Bly]

We also have a qnap but it is not a substitute for backing up your files somewhere else.
About 6 months ago our previous nas failed, not any of the hard drives but the nas unit itself.
I found out that you cannot simply take the 4 drives out of one nas and put them in another one.
When you put the drives into a new nas, even if it is an identical one, it will reformat the discs.
We sent the drives to a data recovery company. it cost $2000 to get the data back.

Plug in a portable USB hard drive and press a button - it backs all your stuff up for offsite storage.

 

[jrsc]

I've tried pretty much all of them and non of them compare to the speed and reliability of dropbox. It may be more expensive the solutions like google drive and others but it seems to be in a league of it's own compared to everything else.

 

[Locals Find!]

Plug in a portable USB hard drive and press a button - it backs all your stuff up for offsite storage.

This is by far the worst Idea ever. I am not saying that to be "snarky" either. I did this for a long time. Till my 9 year old tripped and fell into my desk knocking the drive to the floor while it was spinning. $700 later for recovery and still only got 75% of the data. I learned my lesson.

Any portable drive is only good until an accident happens then it's worth about as much as used YUGO.

 

[Bly]

This is by far the worst Idea ever. I am not saying that to be "snarky" either. I did this for a long time. Till my 9 year old tripped and fell into my desk knocking the drive to the floor while it was spinning. $700 later for recovery and still only got 75% of the data. I learned my lesson.

Any portable drive is only good until an accident happens then it's worth about as much as used YUGO.

It's just a backup copy so how its it a bad idea?

You break the drive, you replace it, still having the original files.
The NAS is setup as RAID too so if one drive fails you still have the files on the other(s).

You mean you only had one copy of all your files?
That is epically idiotic.

 

[Cyw]

Dropbox works like a charm for us
ipads, iPhones, laptops and desktops all connected with instant access to the same updated files.
All Dropbox files are also regularly backed up

 

[Locals Find!]

It's just a backup copy so how its it a bad idea?

You break the drive, you replace it, still having the original files.
The NAS is setup as RAID too so if one drive fails you still have the files on the other(s).

You mean you only had one copy of all your files?
That is epically idiotic.

Actually at the time of the incident yes, there was only one copy of the files as the primary drive failed. I was actually copying from the portable to the new hard drive when the incident occurred. So, again portable drive bad idea as a back up option.

Fine for basic traveling or transporting a copy - YES
Backup - NO

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Dropbox works like a charm for us
ipads, iPhones, laptops and desktops all connected with instant access to the same updated files.
All Dropbox files are also regularly backed up

Qnap does the same thing. It will instantly go to all those devices, cloud, offsite Qnap (maybe support other brand as well, their lit. specifically mentions Qnap for what I would imagine would be obvious reasons) or local device redundant backup

This is by far the worst Idea ever. I am not saying that to be "snarky" either. I did this for a long time. Till my 9 year old tripped and fell into my desk knocking the drive to the floor while it was spinning. $700 later for recovery and still only got 75% of the data. I learned my lesson.

Any portable drive is only good until an accident happens then it's worth about as much as used YUGO.

Having a young kid around particularly when doing stuff like that, anything could be a bad idea. All of these methods do have their short comings (some riskier then others) and any one of them can happen at any one time. That's why having redundant backups is a good thing.

Actually at the time of the incident yes, there was only one copy of the files as the primary drive failed. I was actually copying from the portable to the new hard drive when the incident occurred. So, again portable drive bad idea as a back up option.

Fine for basic traveling or transporting a copy - YES
Backup - NO

As your only back up...no it is not. Especially depending on what type of external hard drive you got. As a redundant back up, it works just fine. Which is what Bly is talking about. The main backup is the Qnap. With the way ours is setup we can have 2 hard drive failures and it will still run as if nothing is wrong. Now that 3rd one goes, then you have problems.

 

[Locals Find!]

Qnap does the same thing. It will instantly go to all those devices, cloud, offsite Qnap (maybe support other brand as well, their lit. specifically mentions Qnap for what I would imagine would be obvious reasons) or local device redundant backup





Having a young kid around particularly when doing stuff like that, anything could be a bad idea. All of these methods do have their short comings (some riskier then others) and any one of them can happen at any one time. That's why having redundant backups is a good thing.





As your only back up...no it is not. Especially depending on what type of external hard drive you got. As a redundant back up, it works just fine. Which is what Bly is talking about. The main backup is the Qnap. With the way ours is setup we can have 2 hard drive failures and it will still run as if nothing is wrong. Now that 3rd one goes, then you have problems.

Yeah, I learned my lessons hard and fast. I don't have anything as high tech as a QNAP but, my setup is now so redundant it's confusing sometimes. When your working from home and you got kids stuff happens. Luckily, I was fortunate enough that what was lost wasn't overly major and not easily replaceable. Especially considering it was my early work before I came here and well, lets just say it being lost wasn't a loss to the world at all.