Greetings, Was doing some home network reconfiguration recently and found my Readyshare vault did not seem to be working. I reconnected the drive and got it going again but could not get e-mail notifications. Digging around I found the notice that Readshare Vault support ended APril 15, 2021 and there was no guarantee it would work after that date. Diggin deeper I could find no reference to a replacement product. What are we supposed to use to backup our data now to a router connected USB Drive? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.TC

trev5708 wrote: I'm also looking for a replacement to the old software, maybe someone on here can help me out. I have a hard drive hooked up the the R7000 so that the four computers in the office can access the drive at the same time, and it acts as a documents folder on each of our computers. There is a difference between a backup service and one that lets you access files, although there may be ways to turn access into a backup service. For access I use ReadyCLOUD to transfer and access files. But this is a single user option. You may be able to share access, but I have not tried a multi-user approach. To be honest, I think you are asking a down market consumer de vice to provide a business service. An office should be able to afford something like a ReadyNAS store. Support | NETGEAR Then there are cloud services like OneDrive. ReadySHARE is a pretty poor alternative to proper Ethernet NAS.

You could map the drive to your pc and schedule the backup within windows. You could hardwire the drive to your pc and schedule it. You could upgrade to an actual NAS drive (my recommendation) and schedule backups through that. Yo could build a server and schedule backups that route.

topcorner18 wrote: What are we supposed to use to backup our data now to a router connected USB Drive? What do you want to achieve with this setup? If it is a simple backup regime that is dead easy. I do this all the time with ReadySHARE and various different bits of software. This is in a network with a handful of PCs. a bunch of Ethernet NAS and ReadySHARE USB. I recently discovered that I can use a Seagate 8TB USB drive on ReadySHARE and then plug two more drives into the USB ports on the 8TB USB. I can even get at the ReadySHARE drives from afar, using ReadyCLOUD.

Thanks for the quick replies folks. Maybe I am missing something, the press release said ReadyShare Vault would no longer be supported and may not work going into the future. Is the "Vault" a separate part of the ReadyShare Application? So I have a drive connected to the R7000 USB. I assume that is now a Readyshare USB drive but there is no backup software which was "The Vault" portion? That being the case what backup application would you recommend that would serve the same purpose as the discontinued VAULT software.

Your USB drives are just drives connected to your network. You can use whatever software you like to backup files from your PC or other stuff on your network to these drives. I use Synchback, Acronis and Easeus to run various backup tasks. If you already have backup software, I would be surprised if it can't use your READYSHARE drives at the receiving end. You might even find that it is more capable than Vault.

Replacement for Readyshare vault that was discontinued

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plemans
Guru
Jan 26, 2022
You could map the drive to your pc and schedule the backup within windows.

You could hardwire the drive to your pc and schedule it.

You could upgrade to an actual NAS drive (my recommendation) and schedule backups through that.

Yo could build a server and schedule backups that route.
michaelkenward
Guru
Jan 27, 2022
topcorner18 wrote:

What are we supposed to use to backup our data now to a router connected USB Drive?

What do you want to achieve with this setup? If it is a simple backup regime that is dead easy.

I do this all the time with ReadySHARE and various different bits of software. This is in a network with a handful of PCs. a bunch of Ethernet NAS and ReadySHARE USB. I recently discovered that I can use a Seagate 8TB USB drive on ReadySHARE and then plug two more drives into the USB ports on the 8TB USB.

I can even get at the ReadySHARE drives from afar, using ReadyCLOUD.
- topcorner18
  Aspirant
  Jan 27, 2022
  Thanks for the quick replies folks. Maybe I am missing something, the press release said ReadyShare Vault would no longer be supported and may not work going into the future. Is the "Vault" a separate part of the ReadyShare Application?
  
  So I have a drive connected to the R7000 USB. I assume that is now a Readyshare USB drive but there is no backup software which was "The Vault" portion? That being the case what backup application would you recommend that would serve the same purpose as the discontinued VAULT software.
  - michaelkenward
    Guru
    Jan 27, 2022
    Your USB drives are just drives connected to your network. You can use whatever software you like to backup files from your PC or other stuff on your network to these drives. I use Synchback, Acronis and Easeus to run various backup tasks.
    
    If you already have backup software, I would be surprised if it can't use your READYSHARE drives at the receiving end. You might even find that it is more capable than Vault.

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Replacement for Readyshare vault that was discontinued