The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/True-Entrepreneur851 on 2025-02-13 03:44:09.
I need some help and guidance on setting up my backups as I am facing difficult choice and options. I have the following setup : 1 Synology NAS 423 where I store different things in 4 folders around 20 TB all data to backup. 1 HD 10 TB and 5 drives 4TB each.
I have Duplicacy on my pc that is connected to the NAS through wifi.
I would like to backup my NAS, first thing I did was to use Windows Storage Space to manage a RAID0 drive for backup, works great and now I have 10TB + 12TB for backup storage. Problem is backup from PC is very slow, reaching 50 MB/s.
I am thinking now about two options to make it faster :
Setup Duplicacy on my NAS and backup from NAS. The problem is that I have only 2GB of RAM, should I buy more ? Besides this I am not confident the RAID created by Windows storage space will be recognized as such by my NAS. I am also having big pain to setup duplicacy as they are not clear on which version should be used for my Synology, is it Duplicacy web ? I am very newbie and considering also BORG as I found the package for DSM but not sure it is easy to setup..
Other option : I keep using Duplicacy on my pc, I buy a long ethernet cable and plug to my NAS. My question there : will it be MUCH faster than 50 MB/s ?
Other points to consider : I want to avoid buying a 20TB drive because I see it as a waste of money given that my 4x4TB are in good conditions and I find it better for my bank account compared to price of 20TB disks. I do monthly backups for Home use, no need to have something too much elaborated.
Thanks for the help on this.