06-15-2018, 06:24 AM
(06-15-2018, 04:54 AM)pfeerick Wrote:(06-14-2018, 08:57 PM)fire219 Wrote: My recommendation would be to just use the Rock64 (with a high quality 3A or 4A power supply -- no need for the big ones you have in mind) with a JMS578 adapter hooked up to just one SSD, and use the other SSD as an offline backup (connect with a similar adapter on one of the USB2 ports when you want to backup). This will be safer than cheap RAID and there is less to go wrong.
I second that! Offline backup is the best way to go... no power spikes to fry primary and backups, no software raid to ruin your day. Do an image of your OS separately, and then do a backup of the SSDs with rsync, syncthing, etc.
I agree with the previous two suggestions and have an alternative backup option. I run Duplicacy on a Rock64 and use it to backup a local NAS to Backblaze B2. It works really well and provides the benefit of an offline copy AND a geographically separate copy as well. The nice thing is that I store all my critical data on the NAS box and so the Rock64 backs them all up in the middle of the night.
From a process standpoint, my script mounts the NAS, backs it up and then unmounts it.
