Still looking for a usable NAS for Ubuntu 23.04

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2023-08-06 at 16:52 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > True - but only if your needs are niche.
> > 
> No, true whatever your needs are

Well, we can agree to disagree on how true that is. It's not completely
black and white.

IMHO, if someone wants to write files to a NAS-based filesystem and
retrieve them later, and they are using the usual mechanisms for doing
so, then pretty much any NAS out there will do the job. I stand by that
statement.

If they need iSCSI, or want the NAS to be using XFS, or absolutely
require an rsync server, RAID6 or the ability to offload to S3 etc etc,
then they will need to do more research.

> you still need to decide how to do your backups.

Of course. And any normal backup software will work with any normal
NAS.

>> Pretty much every purpose-built NAS out there is basically
>> a Linux box
> So what? That makes no difference at all.  It may make it easier to
> do some things than if the NAS wasn't Linux based

You just answered your own question :-)

> it's the sort of backup strategy you want that should then
> show you what sort of NAS you want.

Absolutely. I'm just saying that 95% of people will discover that "any"
is the answer to "what NAS do I need".

What people often DON'T know is that a NAS is not a safe backup on its
own, any more than a single USB drive is a safe backup on its own.

Regards, K.

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