I need a way to backup my Synolgy NAS. For a while I was using a 14TB and Hyper Backup, but I've surpassed the ability to do that.
Eventually I'll want to build a second NAS and keep it off-site, but for the medium-term I'm getting antsy about not having a complete backup of my system. Money is a bit tight, so the less I need to spend, the better.
The things that seem the easiest to me currently are:
- A multi-bay enclosure with a few discs in some kind of array to make a single volume. Mostly would be used as cold backup that I'd plug directly into the NAS and run an incremental backup from time to time.
- Same idea, but with a couple disks in my PC (running Windows 10 currently). This idea seems.... less good, but maybe cheaper and more convenient since I wouldn't have to buy the enclosure, and I'd be able to run incremental backups more frequently/automatically over my home network.
Are there solutions I'm not thinking of? If not, I'm thinking #1 is probably the better way to go. Thoughts? Recommendations for hardware/configuration?
EDIT:
Follow-up question: If/when I get a second NAS setup, does it matter if the second one is Synology? I'm hesitant to buy any more Synology gear, since they seem to be extremely hostile towards consumers lately.