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

On 23 Jun, Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> wrote:

o ... if this is really about one of those "hardswired CIFS"type of
NAS, what is the best method?

On 2025-06-23, Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@brianhowlett.me.uk> wrote:

It's a Synology DS115J box - the backups of my other devices go to 2
external USB drives which are formatted to EXT4.
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I can access it via a browser, and it does allow me to install software on
it, so I will investigate if there is anything available that will allow
me to back up my Pi5 from that end.

I looked it up. It seems to be an ARM CPU in an enclosure that has only room
for one drive. For a NAS, I would be looking for an enclosure that could
hold 4 drives, but those are getting rarer. The secondhand market has
plenty of small form factor desktops with low-end x86 or AMD64
processors and room for 2 drives for less than what this costs.

If you need to put the drives externally in a stack of USB enclosures,
you might as well use an RPI4 in a CanoKit box.

I don't get the attraction of this type of device.