Maverick52

We're really not fully setup for redundant backups like I'd planned, but right now we have a Synology NAS that holds her photo archive along with the Unraid server holding a copy of the archive. More current photos are on her editing PC (and the camera cards for at least a little while) and are backed up to the cloud, so quite a bit of her archive is on the cloud as well. The plan was to implement another Unraid server like our current one to replace the Synology (as it's only a 2 bay NAS so it's limited for upgrading) and then have the 2nd server stored offsite. I don't mind helping her, but who knows how things will go in the future. I just figured I should find out if I can point her in a different direction if things change. As far as her learning goes, it's less about her willingness to learn and more about her ability to understand and retain it. She's a creative type, this stuff is a completely foreign language. My son is more like me though, so I suppose if worse came to worse he could handle things even if he has to google stuff or have me talk him through something.

This is a bit of an awkward question, but... I setup a Unraid server for my wife's photography business, she uses it to store her photo archive. We're beginning a separation and while I'm still willing to help if she had issues with her server, eventually she would need to be able to handle issues/hire someone to handle issues if she were to run into them. Is there any common, like Geeksquad or something, business that would be familiar enough with Unraid to help her out if she were to need it? edit: I guess I should add... The setup probably won't need to be adjusted moving forward, but right now the array is only made up a single parity drive and single data drive. As time goes on a hard drive would need to be added physically and through the Unraid UI. So other than some unforeseen issue this is basically the only thing I know that will need to happen in the future.

I know this is a super old post, but since the thread has been somewhat refreshed anyways I just wanted to quote you and say thank you for solving the issue I was having with my HP Mediasmart and Unraid. Unraid was only seeing two drives in specific slots, after changing this in the BIOS it now sees all four perfectly. I picked up my old HP Mediasmart off Facebook, I figured it was worth a gamble for $80 and it came with 7 TB of HDD's and the video cable. Even with the super old hardware I think it's going to make a nice NAS for me.

Good to hear you're doing ok with 12TB on their service. This is from the email they sent me, which is what kind of makes me nervous of their service. "10TB in isolation shouldn't be unfeasible, so long as you adjust your configuration to be very different from the defaults, but it's also really quite a substantial quantity of data, and you'll be pushing the program. The other factor to consider is backup and restore times. We set a guideline of expecting 10GB to 30GB of uploads per day, after the first week or so. New archives can oftentimes get a good half terabyte or so into the cloud at a breakneck pace, but once a large amount of data has been uploaded, the overhead catches up with the upload process, and it settles into more normal rates. What this means is that it could take years to upload 10TB of data, and if you're using it specifically for an emergency in which your local storage is lost, destroyed, or damaged, that means that it could take a very, very long time to recover that 10TB. It's important to consider your backup strategy carefully. For such a large quantity of data, and the desire to use it only for emergencies, you'd likely have a better experience using a service designed for long-term archival storage of massive quantities of data, such as Amazon Glacier, or Google's Cloud Storage options."

I realize there is no official method and that they want you to use B2, I was just thinking there might be a work around. I know their Windows program wont pick up mapped network drives, but I wasn't sure if anyone else had tried other solutions. I know Crashplan has a docker to use and doesn't cost much more, but their customer support really made it sound like their service wouldn't be very good for large amounts of data (I was specifically inquiring about over 10 TB of data).

Is there a way to use Backblaze's "personal backup" plan with an unraid server? I know Crashplan can, but I don't feel very confident in their service after speaking with their customer support. They basically told me I should go elsewhere. edit: I think I should clarify the purpose of my unraid server and my needs. I'm a photographer so I have a decently large amount of data (and it's always growing) that is simply being stored and not changed frequently. My current workflow is to ingest my photos onto my workstations SSD, over the course of the next few days to weeks I'll perform the work I do to the photos, and then once I'm finished with the photos they'll stay on the SSD for awhile until I transfer them to my storage (which was a Synology NAS but is now a unraid server). All I'm looking for is a backup solution in case of failed drives or a natural disaster or something. If I can't use backblaze personal directly from the unraid server, I think I could still run it from my workstation and have it backup everything, but I thought it would be nice to just have it all done on the server side.