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RN102 and Active Directory domain
Hello, We currently have 2 ReadyNAS PRO buisiness Edition on our Active Directory domain. They work great (531 days uptime for both today). Now we need a third NAS and the RN102 seems to be the go...
AS I understand you do a full backup that's not updated after by network, that's only a backup copy for disaster recovery, an USB drive (with raid1) wouldn't be enough ? or you want to be able to get up and running without performing a restore ?
For a backup, you should be able to backup 8Tb (NAS max size) in less than 3 months without problem so I guess the Hardware is enough. With a speed of 40MBytes/s it should take around 56hours for 8Tb if I didn't mess up with the numbers. But I guess you'll have raid1, so it should be half the size and take half the time, 28H. If you want to do it overnight, then you may want to get a better NAS. if 28Hours is ok, then I don't see why upgrading.
If you plan to have more and more data or if you want more security, the 104 is not much more expensive but has 2 disks slots more than the 102. With more space you can have more snapshots too and create some kind of history of the files.
Otherwise, any NAS should be able to deal with your needs except those designed to be USB drives with cloud features or really old models without gigabit NIC. Rsync is a common file transfer protocol for NAS, the rsync compatibility is shown in every serious site. You may then want to look at the warranty since Netgear has a 3 year warranty over the 102/104 I recall (checking advised though).
PS : Depending on you backup abilities and data sensitivity and volatility, once a quarter seems to be a long time.
I was tought to get a full backup once a week and incremental backups once a day. Since you have already a mirrored NAS, I believe that once every two weeks would be enough, maybe once a month but once every 3 month... I'm always considering the worst case scenario, so are you able to get back to work with 3 month old data ?
Perhaps you have a pretty good idea of your needs and once a quarter is enough, in that case please ignore the remark but since I do not know anything about you or your company, I prefer to warn.
For a backup, you should be able to backup 8Tb (NAS max size) in less than 3 months without problem so I guess the Hardware is enough. With a speed of 40MBytes/s it should take around 56hours for 8Tb if I didn't mess up with the numbers. But I guess you'll have raid1, so it should be half the size and take half the time, 28H. If you want to do it overnight, then you may want to get a better NAS. if 28Hours is ok, then I don't see why upgrading.
If you plan to have more and more data or if you want more security, the 104 is not much more expensive but has 2 disks slots more than the 102. With more space you can have more snapshots too and create some kind of history of the files.
Otherwise, any NAS should be able to deal with your needs except those designed to be USB drives with cloud features or really old models without gigabit NIC. Rsync is a common file transfer protocol for NAS, the rsync compatibility is shown in every serious site. You may then want to look at the warranty since Netgear has a 3 year warranty over the 102/104 I recall (checking advised though).
PS : Depending on you backup abilities and data sensitivity and volatility, once a quarter seems to be a long time.
I was tought to get a full backup once a week and incremental backups once a day. Since you have already a mirrored NAS, I believe that once every two weeks would be enough, maybe once a month but once every 3 month... I'm always considering the worst case scenario, so are you able to get back to work with 3 month old data ?
Perhaps you have a pretty good idea of your needs and once a quarter is enough, in that case please ignore the remark but since I do not know anything about you or your company, I prefer to warn.
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