Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum and I was wondering if you would be kind enough to assist me. I own a DS218+ which I mainly use to backup most of my work (RAW picture files, audio production files, video production files etc).
The issue that I have is that I'm trying to find a way to store archived files that I've held onto ever since I own a PC. Those files mostly contain memories such as old pictures, songs, videos and pretty much collections from my childhood and teenage years. The problem is that I don't actually want to back any of it up but I can't think of any alternative.
I normally use backblaze for backups (as well as my synology) but backblaze won't let me NOT backup and all I need is to store those files somewhere and leave them there permanently. The reason why I don't want to backup those files is that if they get corrupted because of a failure to the hard drive then it will automatically copy the corrupted file onto the server which is basically what I don't want. I don't know if I'm making any sense?
I rarely open those files and I could just leave them on a hard drive but I normally buy a new hard drive every two years and transfer the files over to make sure the files remain intact.
I just would like to store those files onto a server that doesn't need to be backed up because those are old collections that I take a look at only once in a while. As I mentioned, after 30 days, if the hard drive isn't connected to BackBlaze, then I think they remove it from the server, but I'm looking for an alternative where I could just store the files on a server for good just to keep them safe. Do you have any recommendation? I hope this isn't too confusing.
Thank you so much for your help
Best regards
Benjamin
I am new to this forum and I was wondering if you would be kind enough to assist me. I own a DS218+ which I mainly use to backup most of my work (RAW picture files, audio production files, video production files etc).
The issue that I have is that I'm trying to find a way to store archived files that I've held onto ever since I own a PC. Those files mostly contain memories such as old pictures, songs, videos and pretty much collections from my childhood and teenage years. The problem is that I don't actually want to back any of it up but I can't think of any alternative.
I normally use backblaze for backups (as well as my synology) but backblaze won't let me NOT backup and all I need is to store those files somewhere and leave them there permanently. The reason why I don't want to backup those files is that if they get corrupted because of a failure to the hard drive then it will automatically copy the corrupted file onto the server which is basically what I don't want. I don't know if I'm making any sense?
I rarely open those files and I could just leave them on a hard drive but I normally buy a new hard drive every two years and transfer the files over to make sure the files remain intact.
I just would like to store those files onto a server that doesn't need to be backed up because those are old collections that I take a look at only once in a while. As I mentioned, after 30 days, if the hard drive isn't connected to BackBlaze, then I think they remove it from the server, but I'm looking for an alternative where I could just store the files on a server for good just to keep them safe. Do you have any recommendation? I hope this isn't too confusing.
Thank you so much for your help
Best regards
Benjamin