Faster NAS backup?

[davide256]

I should backup my NAS more often but I don't because its slow for that, a DS214Play. Right now I'm doing a full backup because I need to

grow capacity and didn't realize SHR would force me to do a mirror drive when I added a 2nd drive. There is about 3.5 TB on the drive

and at the rate its going, looks like it will take about 24 hours to complete, probably a like time to restore after I've deleted the SHR volume and then

created a RAID 0 with the 2nd disk added. My current backup solution is eSata connected external drive.

 

Any suggestions on what I should be looking at to allow faster backup/restore in the future? New size will be about 10TB and I find it hard to believe I could outgrow 20TB

future space needs in any 4-6 bay replacement NAS

[plissken]

You have a lot of contraints: Drive throughput, most likely the DS214 is a software RAID so that's slow.

 

Short of scrapping it and starting over with an eye to backups....

 

The only other solution I can think of is another DS214 and setup replication but that doesn't protect your from crytpo-ware as your copies are still online.

[R1200CL]

Qnap TS-253D

https://www.qnap.com/en/product/ts-253d

[davide256]

so,, after 14 hours only 585GB backed up  out of 3.6 TB... which is about 11mB  per second. Whereas with a straight file xfer/copy NAS to PC I can do ~100mB per second.

Can't say that Hyper Backup makes any sense to use for large data backup, seems useful only for configuration and apps that don't take up much space.

[davide256]

Started a direct file transfer of the 3.5TB of music between NAS and PC drive, its' about 29% done after 2.5 hours with estimated completion in 7.5 hours.

 

Have been puzzling over a local backup strategy ever since I started doing PGGB conversions to 768/24 and estimated that my 700GB library would mushroom to about 8TB. So thinking that

 

1. Scheduled Hyperbackup makes sense for the ~300GB of app, photos and configuration data to local attached drive

2. Network transfer with a synch schedule to a large PC drive/RAID would cover the music/video backup speed needs for the 4-9TB  of media.