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dallis11
Oct 10, 2019Aspirant
ReadyNAS Rync Backup
I know there is much discussion on this topic however I can't find a direct answer.. I'm attempting a backup via GUI from a 4312 and a 4360 NAS and am using the backup ui to do so. I have a pull jo...
Sandshark
Oct 11, 2019Sensei
ReadyDR will copy the snapshots. The only thing with ReadyDR, though, is that you don't get a usable share on the target device, you just get snapshots. So, if you need to get access to files, you have to clone a snapshot, which does not include the snapshots before it. Those snapshots from earlier are still there in the ReadyDR target, but switching to the backup NAS in the event of disaster on the main one is not made easy by all this.
StephenB
Oct 11, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Sandshark wrote:
ReadyDR will copy the snapshots. The only thing with ReadyDR, though, is that you don't get a usable share on the target device, you just get snapshots. So, if you need to get access to files, you have to clone a snapshot, which does not include the snapshots before it. Those snapshots from earlier are still there in the ReadyDR target, but switching to the backup NAS in the event of disaster on the main one is not made easy by all this.
Yes.
Since I want a highly available backup, I don't use ReadyDR. But if you have 2x the capacity on the 4360, you could potentially do both - mirror the shares with Rsync (no snapshots in the mirror), combined with ReadyDR for snapshot backup.
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