Centralization of data - MacBook Air, iPhone 3, PC and laptop
I have a MacBook Air (250 GB), PC (500 GB + 2 to), portable and 3 iPhones to deal with. My music, movies and family photos/videos are all spread on all devices. I like my MacBook, but it was a gift from my wife and she got just the 250 GB model. Trying to consolidate and backup so I don't lose anything, especially the family photos/videos. I thought to do what follows, but don't really know too much about all this. Don't really understand the difference between a backup of file straight and a Time Machine backup. Very open to suggestions, but I don't want any paid Cloud (DropBox, disk, etc.) because of the long-term costs of storing large amounts of data. I probably ~ 1 TB of data (and growing). I don't plan on getting to 2 TB in the next 2 years. The terminology can be switched off, I'm not an expert, so apologies in advance.
1 stop the PC and laptops, making it the only computer MacBook that we will use. The only reason why I use the laptop and PC now is that SOME media and docs are on them.
2. move all the media on all computers to a drive QNAP TS-231 with 2 x 2 TB NAS and use RAID 1 to keep all backed up in case of a disk failure. Finally I should probably spend 2 x 4 tb, but for now I don't have that much space I don't think.
3. move all non-media from the PC and laptop to the MacBook (I guess it's less than 10 GB of documents) and backup with Time Machine on the NAS. Is it better to segment ~ 200 GB on the NAS drives specifically for Time Machine?
4. take the 2 TB drive access the computer and buy a cheap kit to an external drive. Wipe once that everything is on the NAS. A few times a year (perhaps monthly), copy the NAS drive to the external drive and keep this disc in our safe, so all my stuff is not sitting inside a box.
Are there holes in this plan? Do you have any suggestions? I'd appreciate very much any help that you could give me.
Thank you
JPP
I don't have the expertise to comment on most of your plan, but one thing you may want to consider is point 4. Many so-called fireproof safes are not rated for computer media (or have a very limited side) or for the (flood) water damage.
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