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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