Robert McWilliam wrote: < big snip> > I think NAS is extra complication (and cost) for not much advantage > unless you want to use it for sharing the files or are using a laptop > and want the backup to happen wirelessly, or have some other reason > beyond backups.
I'd agree with this. On my home system I back up to both NAS and to USB. As Robert rightly says, I used the NAS as a shared (cross-platform) drive, so it was available for backup too, and that's why I used it, not because it was easy! On the contrary, samba was not reliable, and cifs was difficult to get working (permissions are an inherent problem, it seems). So if you just want to use the drives for backup, I'd go for USB as being the simplest option. (And a couple of USBs has the other advantage Robert mentions in his post - the possibility, if you wish, of off-site storage. I carry some important backup data with me, on a little 100Gb Seagate portable USB drive) As a home user, I tried several GUI-based back-up apps. I did not find one that did what it promised in all departments. I eventually went back to rsync, which, once you've got it set up - perhaps with a script - just works. (BTW, rsync still gives me errors when trying to sync ownership and permissions to the shared FAT32 NAS, which is another reason for keeping things simple with USB if you can.) NAS is great for what it's for - sharing storage space and data on a network. But it's less less than wonderful for Ubuntu backups. As I say, if you just want backup storage, I'd recommend sticking to USB drives. FWIW, that's my two-pen'orth. HTH Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
