Wondering if anyone can share good resources on manual offline backup systems for household / small business use.
Intending to implement manual offline backups on a monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis depending on the drive.
Capacity needed is not huge, under 5TB for the foreseeable future.
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Topics of interest:
Analysis of which type of RAID to use
(RAID 1 vs RAID 5 vs RAID 10, etc)
Choice of drive type (SSD vs HDD)
Particularly interested stats about reliability, failure rates, best practices to extend hardware lifetimes, etc
Recommended brands or models of drives
Hardware vs software RAID implementation
If hardware RAID, recommended enclosures / brands.
Encryption software for external drives
General best practices, physical security, etc.
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Links to reputable sources much appreciated.
Thanks all ~