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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 st...
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.
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.
Sandshark wrote:
maybe you meant the NAS in the first sentence?yes, thx - I've fixed that.
Sandshark wrote:
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.It certainly will lock down the laptop location while you are running the backup. I think it would be workable for a weekly backup schedule though.
Thanks for all the replies. I ended up setting up my NAS 212 with 2 internal 4tb drives as a RAID 0. This is on a daily back up(using Netgear backup) to 8tb external hard drive connected to the usb 3.0 on the NAS. The NAS is used like a local hard drive on my Surface Book. My Surface book only uses onboard memory for apps etc...No local storage on the device. This is working very well so far.
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