Onedrive Home Backup?

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First time setting up a proper backup solution, hoping for some advice, thanks.

Current Setup
  • Family pc - backed up to 1Tb onedrive (will soon be replacing with an intel nuc i5)
  • Gaming pc - no backup
  • Both connected to router via cat6
My Plan
  • Both pc's will have files stored locally with weekly backups to shared external hard drive
  • Change onedrives location to the shared external hdd to backup the backups offsite
  • Shared external hdd will also act as a video library, for streaming to Raspberry Pi
Question
  • For onedrive to work, the shared external hdd would have to be connected to a powered on pc, this may not work with a NAS drive?
  • If I used an external hdd connected to family pc via usb3 and leave it on all the time (advantage of intel nuc low power consumption)
  • Then share the external hdd with the gaming pc using windows homegroup share option
  • Will this effectively be a NAS drive then? Any disadvantages compared to a proper NAS?
Would this work and work well or can you suggest a better solution?


Note: Onedrive can only backup data in the onedrive folder and does not support symlinks or junction points. I would like to keep using onedrive as I currenly have a free 1Tb until 2019 - (Came free with Office 365 Student).

Thanks
 
Nothing particularly wrong with your plan but it would make data access a bit slower, limited at USB speeds at best.

Personally I'd suggest looking at Crashplan, grab the client (free to use) and simply don't pay for a subscription. Select folders you want on one PC and the destination as the other PC and vice versa, you could also setup the destination as a network location or a mapped drive (by sharing out the USB drive on the network).

Crashplan can run when you want as a service. It's always on my PC and simply backs up changes when it runs every few hours, rarely notice it tbh. I do have a subscription for it though.

Bonus is any backups are also encrypted - BUT that does mean you need to use the crashplan client to extract files later if you want to, however it also means the data is protected if the USB drive is stolen.
 
i dont think crash plan is available in the UK.
we use it at work but we only was able to use it because our main office is in the US
 
Thanks for your input.

Halfmad said:
Nothing particularly wrong with your plan but it would make data access a bit slower, limited at USB speeds at best.
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Surely unless I'm running raid, usb3 is not going to limit speed. The hdd read/write will be several time slower.

Any opinion of using an external hdd mapped as a network drive vs a proper nas drive? Don't have a huge budget so was looking at the WD My Book vs WD My Cloud [would much prefer a synology :D]

leigh_boy said:
i dont think crash plan is available in the UK.
we use it at work but we only was able to use it because our main office is in the US
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I was planning on using Acronis True Image 2015 for encryped backups and freefilesync for real time sync of files to external hdd.
 
Any opinion of using an external hdd mapped as a network drive vs a proper nas drive? Don't have a huge budget so was looking at the WD My Book vs WD My Cloud.

Also, Halfmad, how would usb3 limit access speed?
 
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