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ReadyNAS 212 Back Up Question
I am using my NAS (Raid 1, 2 - 4 TB drives) attached to a R7000 Netgear router as a hard drive for my Microsoft Surface Book 2. As you know, there is not much onboard memory(128 or 256 GB) on solid state lap tops. Before completely switching over from my desk top to my laptop, I need to get my back up going. I am aware that a RAID 1 is not a back up solution. My question is....When I attach my 4tb external hard drive(back up drive only), is it acceptable to make the connection to the NAS usb 3.0 port or should I use the usb 3.0 on my R7000 router? Also this is a home back up most important being pictures and videos. These take up quite a bit of storage. Right now I'm still around 1TB of data. Would it be better to just run the NAS as a RAID 0 (providing 8 TB of hard drive storage) with an 8 TB external hard drive as back up drive? This would almost certainly prevent the need of ever buying more capacity. Thanks very much for your advice
Calvin386 wrote:
So it looks like I have a plan now. I will add an additional 8tb external hard drive as a redundant back up and reformat my current external hard drive to NTFS. Also will be looking into a UPS for my system.
That should work out well. On the UPS: you want one that has a USB output for monitoring. You connect that to the ReadyNAS, so it will cleanly shut down when the UPS battery drains. I happen to use Cyberpower myself, though many folks like APC.
Perhaps also switch to jbod (2 volumes) in the future when you need to recreate the volume anyway. You'd simply put some of the network shares on each volume (keeping reasonable free space on each). It looks the same from the PC, since it normally sees the shares, and not the full volume.
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That mostly depends on what protocol you want to use for the backup. AFAIK (I don't own one), the R7000 does not run RSync, which is probably your best bet for backup. So unless the speed of the Router is far superior to the NAS, I'd go with mounting it to the NAS. Speed usually isn't a big driver on backups, anyway; except maybe the first one.
I recommend you also format the drive using NTFS rather than the native EXT (whihc it likely already is). While the R7000 can read an EXT drive, your computer can't. And you probably want your backup to be readable on your computer if something goes wrong with the NAS (the whole poiutn of the backup).
Sandshark wrote:
That mostly depends on what protocol you want to use for the backup. AFAIK (I don't own one), the R7000 does not run RSync, which is probably your best bet for backup.
I do own one, but haven't used it for a few years now. It doesn't support rsync. If I remember correctly, the performance was decent but not as fast as a direct USB connection in the NAS.
Your best option is to connect the USB drive to the NAS.
My second choice would be to connect the USB drive to your laptop and do the backup over wired ethernet. Unfortunately that can't use rsync, but you could use PC tools like FreeFileSync.
StephenBwrote:Your best option is to connect the USB drive to the laptop.
My second choice would be to connect the USB drive to your laptop and do the backup over wired ethernet. Unfortunately that can't use rsync, but you could use PC tools like FreeFileSync.
I think maybe you meant the NAS in the first sentance? As for the second, that makes the laptop a lot less portable, which is why I didn't suggest it. If you really use it more like a desktop, then that's certainly an option.
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