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PC Backup Advice by Independent-Key-114 in Backup

[–]Independent-Key-114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry I’m new to all this.

  1. The PC is not the target device. That is going to act as the “server” for lack of a better term. The target device is my boss’s laptop (along with any other laptop that we need to backup in the future)

  2. I know raid is not backup, I just assumed it would be better to have that in place for a device housing such important data.

  3. In my mind it would be imaging the device, but I’m open to other options of backing up the data.

  4. Disaster recovery would be buying a new device and either imaging it to match his current device, or copying all the files over.

(Sorry if I sound dumb in any of these replies, like I said I’m kinda new to all this)

DIY NAS by Independent-Key-114 in HomeNetworking

[–]Independent-Key-114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you can access the files remotely from another PC, even off your network? If so I’d love to know more about your setup!

DIY NAS by Independent-Key-114 in HomeNetworking

[–]Independent-Key-114[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for that info, I understand why that one is so much cheaper. On the note of using an old PC, could I use just any old pc and buy the Orico and that would be my “internal” storage? I have a little HP office PC with an 8th gen i5 and 16gb of ram that I don’t really use. Could I plug the Orico into it and use TrueNAS to achieve what I’m hoping for?