I have a laptop that I use for important (to me) work, as well as some freelancing stuff I do, and I have Backblaze on it. They backup quickly, and nothing is mission-critical on them (to me). I have a couple of desktops and a laptop used by the family, and those all get backed up locally (FreeNAS and an old Synology NAS that's never going to get BTRFS, but I'm fully converting to a modern/new Synology setup sometime this month) and then to the cloud. I think most people can get away with what you are describing. I hate to use the phrase "it depends", but it depends. I'm pretty new to the Synology world and once I get my workflow set up, I plan to backup all PC's in the house to the NAS and have the NAS backup to the cloud (instead of each PC having their own paid Backblaze account). Question: Assuming that the OP has an online backup going on the NAS (Synology C2, Amazon Glacier, etc.) would it be better to set up the work PC to backup to the NAS (maybe via Synology Drive) and the NAS to send those backups to the cloud at whatever interval the OP sets with whatever service they use? Also, are there any sort of maintenance tasks I should be performing routinely? Some other questions rolling around my head are: are any of the packages in DSM absolute must-haves? Not totally sure what some of them are. It sounds like it would be like 50 bucks a month to use it for the amount of storage I have, which I don't think I am particularly willing to do. I have looked into Backblaze a little bit but I having a hard time understanding the pricing of it. Not sure what fancier workflows I could implement here? I hope to keep all that the same just move the "archive" drive to a mapped Synology folder. The way I had attempted to set her up was basically that she has a "working disk" that is a very nice SSD in her PC where she keeps sessions as she works on them/edits them, once the photos are finished and delivered to her client she had to move them over to her "archive" drive. Not loving the speeds I'm getting but it's chugging along. She has somewhere around 10TB total of photos, more or less, I am currently using Synology Drive Client on her PC to back everything up. Throughout the years I simply added drives to her computer whenever she was out of room. All the things you are pointing out are things I'm currently thinking through. Then again, if she's a professional, it's worth it. Synology makes this fairly easy, but it does incur a monthly cost.
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