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We have 2 models readyNAS 626X, one offsite and one on premis, I also have a small 2 bay ReadyNas at my home. I know these use Debian as an OS, however I am somewhat confused as to what ReadyDR and Rsync do behind the scenes and at the Linix level. Could you please explane that?
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We have 2 models readyNAS 626X, one offsite and one on premis, I also have a small 2 bay ReadyNas at my home. I know these use Debian as an OS, however I am somewhat confused as to what ReadyDR and Rsync do behind the scenes and at the Linix level. Could you please explane that?
rsync is a file level backup tool.
ReadyDR operates at the block level. Therefore, it is more incremental, requires less Internet bandwidth (helpful in your case when you have two systems across the WAN), and it has NETGEAR ReadyNAS software management UI around it. The ReadyNAS UI makes it simple to set up, and the software places the snapshots in the destination unit in a separate share that is not writable by anyone, including the admin. This is a great anti-ransomware tool.
To people who use ReadyNAS more than a NAS, like iSCSI JBOD, VM storage, the additional benefit is that ReadyDR backs up everything, because it is block level, including LUN, VM storage.