Recommended backup scheme?
Hi,
Being entirely new in the Acronis world, I would like some technical feedback upon starting my backup job.
Scenario:
I have ~35TB (mostly large files) placed locally on a RAID5 volume to be backed up to a local NAS (~50TB usable capacity). I really dont want to make full backups often due to the time it takes as well as resources used during this time and for that reason i suggest an incremental solution could work out?
The overall solution i'm looking for should be the fastest and less capacity-consuming(on the NAS).
Furthermore, the backup should be encrypted with a personal key.
To ensure network capacity locally on the source system - i might be setting the max backup transferrate to ~500-600mbit to allow room for daily use while backing up.
The data growth on the source system is on average 20-30GB daily.
Hardware info:
Source ->
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Ryzen 9 5950X CPU
64GB ECC DDR4 2666mhz Memory
1TB A-DATA SX8200 Pro NVME Drive (OS)
5x 16TB Datacenter WD Gold RAID5 Volume based on an Adaptec SmartRAID 3162-8i/e 256bit XTS encrypted controller. The entire volume is encrypted and initial transferspeed tests looks to be maxing out at 700-800MB/s (tested Transferring several big files from OS disk to RAID volume) and 113-118MB/s from the same RAID5 volume to the local NAS.
2x 1.9TB Datacenter SSD Cache enabled for above RAID5 volume.
Destination ->
Synology RS1219+ NAS upgraded with 16GB DDR3 memory and RAID1 M2 SSD Cache (2x1TB Samsung Evo 850)
Network bonding setup with 4x1Gbit as BalanceTLB as a Full duplex 4000mbit setup (even though it only gets feeded 1Gbit from the PC).
Above devices are connected through a Ubiquiti UDM Pro Gateway - no other devices are attached to the network.
Thank you in advance for any feedback provided :)


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Agreed, your best option here is sync. Even if you have the storage capacity for a backup application to work, trying to restore a backup of such size would be beyond the scope of such applications.
You really need to look at an Enterprise solution for this.
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Hi,
Thank you for the initial feedback.
My source data primarily contains already compressed image files and for that reason no further compression should be available.
The problem with sync would be, that the actual synced data is not encrypted. As the image files contains sensitive customer data/lab data i would need some sort of security layer for the synced data in case of physical theft (even with the chances being low or none exsistent due to the highly secured facilities of the source device).
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Below are links to a few of the top ranked encryption software programs. I have no idea what your needs are but sounds like you are retrieving this data from an offsite location in which case the data should be encrypted prior to transmission ideally.
I have experience with Folder Lock and for my purposes it fills the need and works as advertised. I have no experience with the others.
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