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Originally Posted by Hitch
The reason I ask is, I have nearly 2TB of data to back up. I live rurally, which means that the nearest lockbox or bank box location is a 35mi RT. Making a backup and keeping it in my home is all well and good, but it won't save my ass in case of a Fire. We have the vast bulk of the company data on Dropbox (for this reason) but I just replaced my 2T RAIDS with 6T Raids and had to reinstall DB (didn't have a slot in which I could simply copy the drive over, unfortunately) and it took 12 DAYS to redownload/synch the DB data. And that's the FAST direction, down. For upload? I mean, FUHGEDDABOUDIT.
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Is your RAID a mirrored raid? How about replacing one of the disks with a fresh disk, letting it rebuild in the background, while you post the removed disk to a trusted location. Then do that again in whatever time frame seems good to you. When the trusted location receives the latest disk, they ship the earlier disk back to you to be reused. You'd need four disks instead of two. Two would always be in use, one would be in the trusted location, and one would be in transit, or waiting with you to be reused.
Disaster recovery is just the time to get replacement hardware, and the off-site disk, and rebuild the raid from it. probably a lot less than the two week needed to download from from the internet!
With incremental backups to the cloud storage, you could also recover the work done in the time since the last offsite backup was sent, in a lot less time than getting all the data down from the cloud.