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Alex Lago 
Spain
Local time: 10:55
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| Works good for home | Jan 12, 2012 |
In my opinion you can't think of NAS as a backup system, you need to think of it more as your own "cloud", somewhere to keep all your content so that it is always accessible.
I think this applies very well to those of us who work at home (which is probably most of us) in the sense that at home we don't just have work content and we tend to have more than one PC, laptop, etc., at least in my household we have 3 laptops, 2 PCs and 1 iPad, having them all be able to access the same con... See more In my opinion you can't think of NAS as a backup system, you need to think of it more as your own "cloud", somewhere to keep all your content so that it is always accessible.
I think this applies very well to those of us who work at home (which is probably most of us) in the sense that at home we don't just have work content and we tend to have more than one PC, laptop, etc., at least in my household we have 3 laptops, 2 PCs and 1 iPad, having them all be able to access the same content regardless of which of them happens to be on at that time is one of the good things about NAS.
NAS should not really be thought of as a back up system, though the best set up for a NAS is RAID 1 so that all of your content is safeguarded automatically and you can forget about backups.
Plus if you want to you can make you NAS device connect to the internet and you can then have access to your content wherever you are. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Alex Lago
Spain
Local time: 10:55
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Tobias Ernst wrote:
The NAS is a Thecus N3200PRO (3 disks, RAID 5, for additional protection against hardware failure).
I'm curious as to your comment, I would not consider RAID 5 protection against hardware failure after all you are sharing data blocks among drives and if one drive goes you lose access to that data, I'm not an expert but I though only RAD 1 and 10 gave real hardware failure protection.
| | | | R. Alex Jenkins
Brazil
Local time: 05:55
Member (2006)
Portuguese to English
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Dropbox, first and foremost + a second hard disk/pen drive/mobile phone.
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 10:55
Spanish to English
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| Answered yes because | Jan 12, 2012 |
JulianHolmes wrote:
Hmmm.
And, you answered "Yes" to the poll. Are you saying that your pen drive is a NAS? If so, please enlighten us more.
Tech for tech sake's? Definitely not!
Happy translating!
[Edited at 2012-01-12 14:44 GMT]
I do have the OPTION of NAS, and secure servers and whatnot, but am terminally suspicious of anything "cloudy" and have no reason myself to back up any more than I can already do with a cheapo pendrive. BTW I had a Western Union external hard drive for the purpose until last year, but it conked out after about 6 months use and I found that even the capacity there was more than enough for my requirements so now the stick does me. Horses for course )
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Matthew Fisher (X)
Local time: 04:55
German to English
| Another Dropbox user | Jan 12, 2012 |
Thumb drives are case of miniaturization gone too far, at least for me. Too easy to misplace.
One of my clients dropped some files off for me at Dropbox, and since then I've used it as my sole backup service. The real-time synchronization is a nice feature -- although I suppose it prevents reverting to previous file versions, which is one purpose of backups. Maybe I need to rethink my backup strategy. But at least it prevents catastrophic data loss if my hard drive goes bad.
<... See more Thumb drives are case of miniaturization gone too far, at least for me. Too easy to misplace.
One of my clients dropped some files off for me at Dropbox, and since then I've used it as my sole backup service. The real-time synchronization is a nice feature -- although I suppose it prevents reverting to previous file versions, which is one purpose of backups. Maybe I need to rethink my backup strategy. But at least it prevents catastrophic data loss if my hard drive goes bad.
With cable internet, bandwidth is no problem. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Time Machine, iDisk and IMAP | Jan 12, 2012 |
Whenever I move my laptop from home, I backup to an external disk using Time Machine. This is a full copy of everything on the hard drive.
My hard drive died over Christmas. I replaced it and following the procedure with the system reinstall disks, I was asked if I had a Time Machine backup. With that connected, everything was copied over and appeared exactly as I had left it - including my untidy desktop, browser history etc. etc.
I also backup over the internet using ... See more Whenever I move my laptop from home, I backup to an external disk using Time Machine. This is a full copy of everything on the hard drive.
My hard drive died over Christmas. I replaced it and following the procedure with the system reinstall disks, I was asked if I had a Time Machine backup. With that connected, everything was copied over and appeared exactly as I had left it - including my untidy desktop, browser history etc. etc.
I also backup over the internet using a shareware programme called Transmit to sync with my iDisk (which has now become iCloud, though I haven't transferred yet). I do that whenever I have done a reasonable amount of work since my last Time Machine backup, so I won't lose anything. (I could have the Time Machine disk permanently connected and backing up I don't do that).
The beauty of the iDisk is that if I need to access files when I don't have my laptop, I can do so by simply logging in through an internet browser. I can also mark any file for public sharing and send a time-limited or password-protected link to people.
The third part of my system is I have my email configured to IMAP, so I have a copy on the server of everything I have received, sent and filed away into different folders. I can log into this from any web browser and my folders appear exactly as on my computer.
This is the second time I have lost all the data on a laptop due to hardware failure and I'm mightily relieved to have this system in place. I wrote a couple of articles about this for Proz.com a while ago. See:
http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/2291/
http://www.proz.com/translation-articles/articles/2384/ ▲ Collapse
| | | | Minna Wood MITI (Purring CAT Ltd.) (X)
United Kingdom
English to Finnish
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| Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 17:55
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
| This poll begs the question ... | Jan 13, 2012 |
"Just how far will you go to protect your data and working environment?"
And this question is not limited to freelance translators. It is applicable to any professional who uses a computer for work - which is a helluvalot of anxious people.
A certain level of redundancy is required in our homes and offices. Mass storage (not "massive" woops!  ) is getting cheaper by the day and opening up a variety of so... See more "Just how far will you go to protect your data and working environment?"
And this question is not limited to freelance translators. It is applicable to any professional who uses a computer for work - which is a helluvalot of anxious people.
A certain level of redundancy is required in our homes and offices. Mass storage (not "massive" woops! ) is getting cheaper by the day and opening up a variety of solutions including NAS to ensure that we have a fallback in the event of unexpected software and hardware failure.
Neilmac wrote:
"I had a Western Union external hard drive for the purpose until last year, but it conked out after about 6 months use"
I hear you!
Manufacturers' offer only limited guarantees for their hardware. I'm 100% positive that the majority of products are planned to be obsolete and their expiry date is far shorter than you'd like to believe.
As for your data, you might as well kiss that goodbye, too.
I hope that you are all prepared for that irrecoverable disk crash. And, it will come along, believe me. 
Happy and safe translating!
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Gianni Pastore
Italy
Local time: 10:55
Member (2007)
English to Italian
| Yes, QNAP TS-410 | Jan 13, 2012 |
With four 2 TeraByte drives in RAID 5 confi, which gives me more or less 6,5 TeraByte of space. Works wonder for spreading multimedia files all over the house. And for, uh yes, saving that few MBytes of working files
[Edited at 2012-01-13 07:58 GMT]
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