Hi r/photography,

I am upgrading my backup system after a drive failure.

About 2To of data, photography mostly and personal files. Hobbyist.

Up to now, I had two hard drives at home: one working drive synced to Onedrive, the other offline used as a backup.

My working drive failed. I am replacing it by a 4to ssd.

I would like to replace the backup drive by a simple NAS, 4to, and to put it offsite at my parents’ place. Thinking of the Synology DS120j.

My question is how to secure a NAS backup against infection?

Let’s say my system gets infected and the infection is passed to my Onedrive, how can I prevent this infection to reach the NAS? Is a solution to delay the backup, like with a weekly interval? Does not seem fail proof to me.

Thanks in advance

  • 8stringLTD@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Depends what you mean by Infection, the main thing you want to protect yourself against is Ransomware vulnerabilities which is the biggest issue i see with Synology/QNAP/DROBO etc… I make good $ with clients that get infected. My recommendation… get yourself a NAS such as a Synology, and backup to the cloud, there are many cloud providers which support NAS backups, Synology has their own service and its very affordable. Onedrive is also a very good alternative as you mentioned, however the limitation is 1TB, remember the “infection” will not be transferred to Onedrive, assuming you’re concerned about viruses, just get yourself a good AV such as Sophos or Bitdefender and update your OS every month. From what i read, you’re safer backing up to a proper cloud provider than storing another NAS at your parent’s house… a cloud backup can be encrypted so that no one can access those files… Encryption + MFA and you’re relatively safe.