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Replacement for Readyshare vault that was discontinued
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 ...
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. I love the fact that I can access it remotely as well, and would like to keep this feature. The only thing is I can't seem to find a program that will back up/sync the hard drive that's plugged into the router. If anyone has a suggestion, that would be extremely helpful.
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.
Then there are cloud services like OneDrive.
ReadySHARE is a pretty poor alternative to proper Ethernet NAS.
michaelkenward is correct. if you're using this in a business environment, its a pretty poor choice. You should look into a half decent NAS that has redundancy. It'll perform better and potentially have mirrors (if you choose that option) in case a hard drive fails. Which we all know, all hard drives fail eventually.
We did have a BuffaloNAS Linkstation to allow for network connectivity in our office and we were hoping to use it for remote access, however we could never get remote access working unless you were connected directly to the network it was operating off of (something to do with router mapping that I could never figure out). I thought it had been storing in the cloud because I had setup the buffaloNAS webaccess, and the unit boasted 'Cloud Storage', however when the Linkstation crashed on us after two years, we realized that wasn't the case. Luckily we got most of our data back after a tedious data recovery, and that data came to us on a 1 TB hard drive. I realized I could plug that hard drive into the R7000 and I regained network access between the four computers in the office and I gained remote access, and if I could back it up that would have been the trifecta I was looking for.
Maybe you guys could help point me in a direction that will give me the functionality that I want, as I'm no IT expert and just happen to be the one in the office that decided to try and figure this out so we have functionality and peace of mind. We're a Civil Engineering firm that deals with <10GB of data a year. We have four computers that need to access a single location so that we all see the files that are there, and those files are immediately updated upon saving rather than having to upload each file to dropbox or something (I'm not sure if that is even how drop box works, but I hope I've illustrated that appropriately). Remote access would be extremely helpful so we don't have to copy folders directly onto our computers every time we work outside of the office. We like keeping data off of our computers so that they continue to run as fast as possible. Lastly, we would ideally like a system that when a file is updated, the system recognizes that and backs that file up into the cloud or on a backup drive.
Any advice would be amazing, cheers to you guys, you're miracle workers.
I'd be looking more at a cloud solution like Microsoft Onedrive or Googles Drive. You don't use a ton of data.
Cloud based and you wouldn't need to worry about a lot of the issues running it off a router can cause.
You'd all of anywhere access
It sync's and (i think) shows who edits them
you wouldn't have to worry about backups or data recovery.
In a business environment and without an IT person, I'd be looking at ease of use (most people know how to use google/microsoft) and that its always working.
That's why I'd be more looking at the cloud/online solutions than a NAS or router solution.
trev5708 wrote:
We did have a BuffaloNAS Linkstation to allow for network connectivity in our office and we were hoping to use it for remote access, however we could never get remote access working unless you were connected directly to the network it was operating off of (something to do with router mapping that I could never figure out).
Same here. Buffalo's remote access is a pig.
