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Originally Posted by unclebilly
I had not considered Amazon. I just want a server backup in case of fire / hardware malfunction.
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In that case I'd recommend a couple of appropriate sized external (and externally powered!) USB drives. Set file server up to synch one-way when plugged in, synch and take home. Alternate weekly or as frequently as your paranoia makes you do it.
Your file server should already be running RAID-1, -5 or -10 with a hot spare in the chassis and plugged in in case of a single disk failure. When it comes to RAID I have a softness for Linux-based software RAID since the array can be reassembled on any machine, instead of needing the specific RAID controller it was created on.