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Jobuarte

Do you mix your Lab with your personal Data?

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I was thinking about this last night as I was tearing apart my WD My Cloud EX4 after it suffered it's 3rd drive loss in 3 years. 2 failed the other day at the same time. I have a Lab that I use for learning and a PleX Server for my movies and TV shows but for my personal documents, photos and videos I (used to) keep it on my My Cloud. I do have a backup of this information but now that's all I have, not including the actual computers the original Data is on. The point is is that I don't want to mix my personal Data with my Lab, however, that is all I have now as I am mostly thinking it is my My Cloud that is failing and I don't have another $500+ to spend on another device like this nor can afford the online backup options with the amount of Data I have. It's amazing how much I have accumulated over the last 30+ years.

How do you keep your personal Data backed up and safe?

As far as troubleshooting the My Cloud, I've checked everything and even monitored the temperature, 34°, using Red's, so I have no idea why it's failing.

Posted Mar 26, 2020, 1:25 PM UTC

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EasyMac308•

For me, the critical stuff goes on a workstation that has Backblaze on it ($60/year unlimited). Combined with other random local copies I'm reasonably happy.

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JobuarteOP•

That might be an option. So what do you back up the local computers, phones, tablet's etc to the workstation and then run Backblaze on that?

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EasyMac308•

Yeah, that's pretty much the idea. I use the full BackBlaze since it's easier for the Mrs. if she needs to deal with it (plus B2 wasn't available when we got started).

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Cincy-with-a-y•

I don’t know how much you are backing up to backblaze, but their B2 storage could be significantly cheaper. My backup of ~ 150gb is less than $00.70 a month something like $8 a year.

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EasyMac308•

I never got around to checking out B2 since we were using the full client before B2 came out. I'll have to circle back around and check it out.

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Cincy-with-a-y•

There isn’t a shiny desktop client like there is for the normal storage, but there are third party options that can use B2 like duplicati

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Roughshod_Garage•

As far as troubleshooting the My Cloud, I've checked everything and even monitored the temperature, 34°, using Red's, so I have no idea why it's failing.

Power problem? That's very odd.

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JobuarteOP•

It is odd but it's on its own PSW UPS and I was sitting right there when it crapped out. PSU is factory so I would hope it is up to par. I'll check it anyway. This thing was great when it was working. My ISP blocks Port 80 so this was a good workaround.

Edit: Also a power issue would be very strange happening once or twice over a 4 year span I would think.

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-Jehos-•

Nope. My family's personal data lives on a Synology NAS. The lab is completely separate equipment.

If you're using your lab stuff for personal data, it's no longer a lab, it's production. Labs are what you can destroy and not cry (or get yelled at). Production is the stuff you keep rock stable and backed up.

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JobuarteOP•

Exactly what I was saying. I keep mine separate. But now I just have an 8Tb external with my backup copy.

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