After finally getting stressed enough about loosing my data, I've decided to build a mini unraid server.
I've got a little Lenovo ThinkCentre (i5 4590T, 12Gb Ram) and I was thinking of popping a couple of USB3 External Drives onto it, combine them into a pool, then use lucky backup to keep my main servers data backed up.
In total I currently have about 20Tb to backup, so was thinking of buying 2x 12Tb hard drives and some enclosures, and using them.
I plan to run Luckybackup once a week and hopefully even setup to have the backup server be off most of the time and only turn on for backups and then shut down when complete.
I have two main questions:
1. Does this seem like a reasonable approach for a novice? (In particular reffering to using the Drives externally via USB3)
2. Due to the drives only firing up once a week and the backups being incremental, do I specifically need NAS drives or can i get away with regular drives and save a few bucks?
thanks for any help!
Sam