To borrow a quote from a fellow photographer’s blog, “Repeat after me three times: RAID is not backup.
One of the first things to remember is that an archive and a backup are NOT the same. From RAID systems, like a Drobo, to triple redundant drives, to no backup at all. Like their shooting styles, their archive/backup schemes can be just as diverse. Photographers acquire A LOT of images, and that translates to terabytes of data that need to be saved and protected. One in a waterproof Pelican case at home and the other in the safe deposit box.Īll worked up images are also stored on PhotoShelter. Past years are stored on two WD My passport Drives. Every month or so (depending on workload) the backup is backed up to a WD My passport Drive and that copy is moved offsite to a safe deposit box. That drive is backed up daily using Time Machine. The daily work for the year is stored on an external 5TB drive. UPDATE: As for my current 2018 setup, I am running an iMAC with a Retina 5K Display and a 3.5GHz Processor with 1TB Storage. Yes it can be used as a backup destination, but the redundancy is not a backup in itself.
So in that vein, I am retitling the post. THIS IS NOT A BACKUP SYSTEM.This was the point I was trying to make. What I am trying to say is that many people use a RAID as their primary storage system, and have it configured either as a RAID 1 or 5, thinking that the redundancy of the RAID is a backup. It is possible I did not make clear what I was trying to convey about RAID.ĪNOTHER NOTE: I have redesigned the site and for some reason, the comments are not showing.
It was slower when handling a 10GB folder full of smaller files and folders, writing at just 12.7 MBps and reading at 34.7 MBps.NOTE: Over the past few years, I have received a lot of messages and comments about this post. In our performance tests, the 2Big NAS was an average performer, writing a 10GB file at 40.6 MBps, and reading that same file at 71.6 MBps. Once enabled, I was able to backup my Mac to the 2Big NAS and successfully revert to versions of files backed up on the device.
Then you go back and select the volume you want to use, click on the little Protocols button, and then turn on Time Machine. To enable the feature you need to go to the browser-based Dashboard, go to Settings, and click on the little tool icon to turn on the service. Support for Apple’s Time Machine is not enabled by default and you can’t turn it on using the LaCie Network Assistant software. You can upload photos from your iOS device’s Camera Roll to the 2Big NAS or use the app to take and upload photos directly using your device. DS Store, and they clutter up the view of your files. The iOS app is not terribly elegant, showing lots of normally hidden folders, such as. I was able to get MyNAS to work after adjusting the settings, and once configured, I could use the MyNAS iOS app to connect to the 2Big NAS remotely and play songs and view photos on the 2Big NAS on my iPhone 4. But the automatic setup didn’t work for me and an error message suggested that I needed to open a port on my router without giving much in the way of instruction. Naming the share is quite easy just pick a name for the server and it’s available as /yourname. It was simple to load the preconfigured Public share or to create one of your own.Ĭreating the MyNas share for remote access wasn’t quite as simple.
Simply plug the 2Big NAS into your network router and install the included LaCie Network Assistant software on your Mac. The 2Big NAS also offers print server capability for allowing access to supported USB printers to all computers on the network.
The 2Big NAS comes with Intego Backup Manager Pro for Mac and supports OS X’s Time Machine, as well as Windows Backup.