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
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The better question might be why are you getting viruses with such regularity that this is a concern?
I am not getting viruses. It’s a precaution the same as why it is recommended to get a drive offsite: An unlikely event such as fire or theft etc. Just trying to do it right.
you’re overthinking it but if it bothers you, turn on the synology antivirus module
You need a version history or time stamped backups going back far enough that preceeds the issue.
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.