Small PC for offline backps

[Russinating]

We capture a lot of data, probably on average about 100gb per week. What would be the best setup for a small offline machine for copying a mixture of SD cards, SSD and HDDs across to preferably RAID 1 with either internal or eSATA?

Is there a way of speeding up transfers to a RAID 1 setup by using an internal RAID 0 or SSD prior with automation? ie SD card -> SSD -> RAID 1 -> SSD formatted upon completion, automatically.

Any other tips appreciated for a good workflow.

 

[iraiguana]

Reducing the number of times the file is copied will probably save the most time. If the machine is exclusively used for this purpose I guess you could have a script running that will automatically mount and transfer files to folder when a drive (of some sort) is attached.

A HP microsever or HP T20 server would be my choice and then setting up some sort of linux distro with the appropriate scripts running for the data handling needs.

 

[Russinating]

We're only small and I'm a bit techy, but not that techy (never used Linux for example). The way we need to store data needs a bit of human input anyway in terms of naming folders correctly, so the initial transfer would need to be manual. But if there was a way of automating the transfer of the initial SSD onto a RAID 1 setup then that would at least be something and make the transfer quicker.

 

[Russinating]

Any improvements on this?

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• 1 x Gigabyte Z97-D3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard= £59.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-4170 3.70GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £95.99
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• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £32.99
• 1 x XFX XT Series 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £36.95
• 2 x Toshiba 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA300)= £69.95
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• 1 x IcyBox 3.5" Card Reader with USB 3.0 Front Interface (IB-865)= £19.99

Total: £570.38
(includes shipping: £12.60)
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[crapler8]

Isnt the cloud option a solution ? backup a little bit every night ?

 

[Russinating]

It would take ages, we only have ADSL and may transfer 200GB locally in a single day. And that wouldn't protect against cryptolocker and other risks, seemingly. And then of course the cost of having upwards of 50TB backed up in the cloud... and the horrific time to download and access anything backed up.