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1. #Carbon copy cloner encryption upgrade#
2. #Carbon copy cloner encryption full#
3. #Carbon copy cloner encryption portable#
4. #Carbon copy cloner encryption software#

There’s a large community of users and sysadmins with a lot of experience with Synology DiskStations, so there’s an abundance of information and support available online.

#Carbon copy cloner encryption software#

The boxes are compact Linux servers based on a variety of ARM processors. The DiskStation Manager (DSM) software includes an excellent browser-based management GUI and supports plug-in apps, some from third parties. They’re well regarded and now that I’ve had two of their DiskStations for a few weeks, I think the praise is well deserved. But once I started looking around, the company’s name came up over and over again. When I began this project, I’d never heard of Synology.

But if you want to understand why I’ve settled on this solution for backup, and the tests and considerations that went into making these selections, read on! Intermission: If all you care about is the solution, you can stop here. Synology has done an excellent job in making their servers easy to setup and manage, but I still think it would be a bit scary and frustrating for someone who wasn’t already familiar with Linux and disk/file servers. I’ve got quite a bit of experience configuring and managing Linux servers, so these DiskStations are almost like old friends to me. I don’t recommend this solution for beginners. The synchronization uses the standard rsync utility, which transfers only disk blocks that have been modified since the last pass. I’m storing the files on the NAS servers in sparsebundles, the same format used by Time Machine. Once a day, at midnight, I then replicate the shared folders on the local and remote backup servers using Synology’s built-in shared-folder syncing. I sync each of the two drives in my iMac to a separate shared folders on the local NAS backup server every six hours using Carbon Copy Cloner.

(1) Synology 214 DiskStation NAS (network-attached storage) server with (2) Western Digital 4TB Red drives configured as a single RAID0 (striped, non-redundant) disk group in a single 8TB volume for the local backup, connected to my iMac via Gigabit Ethernet.12TB non-redundant Time Machine storage, separate from the above, for versioned files.Īfter lots of research and testing, here’s what I’ve ended up with:.An identical server located at a remote location, replicated via the Internet daily and automatically from the local backup.8TB of usable, local backup storage, updated multiple times/day from my iMac’s internal and external drives.Time Machine by itself is not an adequate backup solution. Sure, I’ve got Time Machine, but I’ve had that completely fail on me and lost everything on the Time Capsule.

#Carbon copy cloner encryption full#

Having a full backup here in the house makes that very easy. Otherwise I’d have both the old and new sets at home simultaneously (2) Although I’ve never had to recover from a major disaster like fire or theft, I have occasionally needed to recover a corrupted or accidentally deleted file. The other set I kept here at home for two reasons: (1) I’m actually paranoid enough that I wanted one set always off site (i.e., not in-transit) so I took a new set to the storage locker each month and only then retrieved the previous month’s set. Why two sets of removable backups? One set I kept off site in a storage locker.

#Carbon copy cloner encryption portable#

For the second level, I made two copies at the end of every month of each of my internal SSD and 2TB rotating drive to two pairs of portable USB drives. My first-level backup was from my iMac to an Apple Time Capsule via Time Machine. My backup strategy for the past three or four years was “pretty good”. This is a long blog post, but it thoroughly covers what I’m now using for backup and what I learned in the process of getting to the final result.

#Carbon copy cloner encryption upgrade#

I’m about to run out of disk storage for my Lightroom image catalog, so in preparation for a new iMac - one that supports a Thunderbolt disk system - I’ve decided it’s time to upgrade my backup systems.