Re: NAS Backup solution? (NAS? What NAS?)

In message <slrn105jd57.v5sv.lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>
          Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> wrote:

On 2025-06-23, David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

My NAS runs OpenMediaVault.  It happens that mine is on a Raspberry Pi,
but it's available (at zero cost) for many platforms.  It's Linux under
the bonnet, and the file systems in my case are ext4 - I can't imagine
anyone would choose VFAT for use under Linux.

 
I looked up OpenMediaVault, and it kinda looks like it is an Ubuntu spin
optimized for media serving.
 
In my own case, I tend to just run a Fedora box, and let it serve media
with Samba. And for that I use an (older, hence cheap) desktop tower. I
don't quite see why one would buy a second box and allow that to only run
file service. But if you did, what is a good hardware package to run it on?

That's like asking "how long is a piece of string?"  The answer depends
on your needs.  How fast?  How much storage capacity?  How much
redundancy?

I don't need anything very fast, nor do I need lots of storage space, so
a Raspberry Pi with two 1TB USB portable drives meets my needs.  The second
drive is updated from the first via rsync every day at 2am, which is enough
redundancy for me.  Other people scoff at this very modest NAS.  Horses
for courses.

David