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Purchasing ReadyNas Pro 6 Diskless
Hello, I'm an IT consultant for a small law firm. The firm is using about 3TB of storage and increasing. I'm currently thinking of purchasing 2 ReadyNas Pro 6 Diskless units and I have a couple...
Hi,
I already use an Ultra 6 Plus backed up to an Ultra 6 Pro. I now wish I just had two Ultra 6 Pro units, but that is Captain Hindsight talking. Back to you query…
The ReadyNAS units have a number of backup options, and depending on the size of the files you want to access StephenB’s suggestions are good ideas. Another option would be to schedule the backups to be done at the end of the working day from Primary to Backup ensuring the day’s changes have been backed up cross site, and then in the morning do it from the Backup to the Primary. This is a little sensitive as it won’t account for changes done outside the normal working hours, so a further suggestion… the ReadyNAS Ultra 6 units come with a button on the front of the unit that can be assigned a backup job. So if you assign a directory to the “main attorney” and one for the rest of the office he’d be able to access the files in this directory from home (safe in the knowledge no-one else is editing or adding files to the directory) and when done he would need to press the button and the backup job would start sending the files to the Primary unit.
A further thought occurs, you could have backups done from the Primary to the Backup done over RSync which allows for removing files and the backup jobs from the Backup to the Primary would be ones that don’t edit but simply adds files to the Primary.
I know this is not quite a simple process and that a two way sync would be better, but it is just an alternate solution for you to consider.
I already use an Ultra 6 Plus backed up to an Ultra 6 Pro. I now wish I just had two Ultra 6 Pro units, but that is Captain Hindsight talking. Back to you query…
The ReadyNAS units have a number of backup options, and depending on the size of the files you want to access StephenB’s suggestions are good ideas. Another option would be to schedule the backups to be done at the end of the working day from Primary to Backup ensuring the day’s changes have been backed up cross site, and then in the morning do it from the Backup to the Primary. This is a little sensitive as it won’t account for changes done outside the normal working hours, so a further suggestion… the ReadyNAS Ultra 6 units come with a button on the front of the unit that can be assigned a backup job. So if you assign a directory to the “main attorney” and one for the rest of the office he’d be able to access the files in this directory from home (safe in the knowledge no-one else is editing or adding files to the directory) and when done he would need to press the button and the backup job would start sending the files to the Primary unit.
A further thought occurs, you could have backups done from the Primary to the Backup done over RSync which allows for removing files and the backup jobs from the Backup to the Primary would be ones that don’t edit but simply adds files to the Primary.
I know this is not quite a simple process and that a two way sync would be better, but it is just an alternate solution for you to consider.
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