On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 13:11:50 -0400, Sean Dennis wrote:   
      
    SD> If I was going to deal with RAID, I'd set up a SAN, not a NAS device.   
      
   Why?  A SAN has a niche and specific use cases.  I would venture to   
   say that NAS (with RAID) has far more use cases.   
      
    SD> The only thing that is backed up is my BBS machine and it uses   
   rdiff-backup to   
    SD> a local external USB device and backed up to an offsite storage area via   
   FTP.   
      
   The ZFS snapshot is a pretty good feature for replication but probaly   
   unneed complexity for BBS applications.  That being said one could   
   simply stand up FreeNAS VM inside the cloud and use that to replicate   
   small data sets from a hardware appliance.   
      
    SD> I have hot, warm, and cold backups for the BBS.  The rest I'm not worried   
    SD> about.   
      
   I recently found some old backups from my BBS ~ 2006 - along with all   
   the message bases, netmail, ect.  I was rather shocked.  It was on an   
   old 80 GB hard drive that didn't spin up last time power was applied.   
   This time when doing a erasure on drives I was disposing of it did!   
      
    SD> Why?  Just because I can. :)   
      
   I think everything done in this community is because we can.  The good   
   and the bad.  :P   
      
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