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Originally Posted by ApK
It's worth reminding folks that the NAS gives you High Availability, NOT a proper backup, in and of itself.
If, say, you accidentally delete a file, or you corrupt your Calibre database on your NAS, it's gone, corrupted across all the drives, and you have no backup.
Same goes for most cloud storage as commonly used, of course. But it's still good to have important files in at least two places that aren't instantly 2-way synced with each other.
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It depends a bit on how you use your NAS
Yes, it gives you high availability, but we mainly use it as backup. We also have a file server for the files we use more often (which is also RAID'ed, with 2 HDDs at full backup). And that one is also not connected to any of the cloud storages.
Also, even if you use, let's say, an external HDD, which you then put away (either in your house or somewhere else), that one can also break down. So, no matter what choice you use, as long as it's only one backup, you can still lose your data.