Hy guys, it’s time to do some upgrade in process and hardware.
My current situation is: 1 offsite NAS (Synology in RAID5 configuration) for remote backups. At home I have my QNAP ts-453a that has Unraid installed and is my media storage with 28TB of storage. In the beginning of my journey I thought this NAS will be only a pool for movies and my photos because I have a secondo offsite NAS dedicated only for backups. But I ended up storing also sensible datas, family things and photos that I want to protect. I have a copy of those files on my remote NAS but you really don’t know what can happens.
SO, I need to change things. Unraid is great but you really don’t have any backup feature. Yeah you can replace a drive or two but you can’t recover files deleted, parity etc. So this is my plan and I need you to confirm if is smart or if it’s needs some change.
I will build the NAS Killer 6 with a SuperMicro X11SCA-F, i5-8500T, 32-64GB ECC RAM, with 8-10 HDDs. I will install unraid an make a big fat pool of 50-70Tb. When the Unraid NAS will be ready I will copy all my data from my QNAP to my new NAS Killer. Done that I could 1) revert my QNAP to the original software and use RAID5 or 2) install TrueNAS with RAID5. This will give me a local backup to secure my files. Done this process I can copy all my sensible data from the NAS Killer to the local QNAP. That’s it.
I will use the NAS Killer to store all the data that I can loose (movies, music etc) + my sensible data to use in local network. I will schedule a rsync process to backup the sensible data fron the Killer to my local QNAP every night as backup and a remote backup just in case.
Does it make sense? Am I missing something?
I have a question. I will need to have TWO instances of Unraid but I have only one licence (now on my old QNAP). Can I install the trial versin on the new NAS and THEN move my old licence to the new one?
