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Secondary NAS as a backup destination - Enquiries - 04-12-2025
Currently I am running a Synology DS224+ with 2x 16TB HAT3301-16 drives. My current backup process is a SeaGate Expansion 16Tb external USB hard drive connected 24x7 to the DS224+ running HyperBU on a 1x/week auto-backup.
I would like to start approaching the 3-2-1 BU philosophy by implementing a 2nd NAS (probably as JBOD) to BU selective important shared folders. This NAS would simply be a BU repository and not used day to day. I currently am the only user for my home networking system and all remote access is through TailScale.
I do plan to upgrade the DS224+ to a 4 bay (or larger?) unit sometime within the next 12 months on a staged process - new NAS chassis - migrate the two 16TB drives to it - adding drives as req'd. I might wait to do the update until then and use the DS224+.
What would be a suitable NAS for the BU role? Nothing fancy - Trying to keep costs under control. Thanks.