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what version of SMB is my 312 using?
hi guys. Pulled the trigger on the ds1618+ during black friday. I plan on using my netgear 312 as a backup nas. Does anyone know what version smb this netgear 312 is using? My Dune player cannot...
I enabled pre-allocation. Thanks.
I'm thinking of enabling snapshots for personal files on the ds1618 (600GB). Then have it back up to the netgear nas and sync up all data for a 1:1 copy once a week perhaps. I have an external hdd for personal file backups (movies are just too big) near my main pc. And also a mediasonic probox with a full 1:1 offsite backup at work. I usually sync that up once a year.
I'm thinking of enabling snapshots for personal files on the ds1618 (600GB). Then have it back up to the netgear nas and sync up all data for a 1:1 copy once a week perhaps. I have an external hdd for personal file backups (movies are just too big) near my main pc. And also a mediasonic probox with a full 1:1 offsite backup at work. I usually sync that up once a year.
If the ReadyNAS will be only used for backing up the Synology, then I suggest disabling SMB on the ReadyNAS altogether (only enabling rsync, and using that for backup). That would effectively isolate the ReadyNAS from any PC malware infections. The Synology->Readynas backups would be the only path to it, and you are in control of the schedule for those backups. My backup ReadyNAS also have snapshots enabled (using custom snapshots to manage retention).
I'd suggest running the ReadyNAS backup job(s) daily - since they are incremental, they won't take much time.
- Thanks for the advice. I need to learn rsync. Been using freefilesync to mirror my data. No shares to the netgear? Interesting. Wonder how rsync can communicate with it? I'll do a little research. I prefer incremental backups. I was going to have the netgear just sleep or power down or something in between backup jobs since i want to be mindful of excess electric costs.
Blanker-2 wrote:
No shares to the netgear?The Netgear would have shares - but SMB wouldn't be enabled as a file sharing protocol. Rsync is the only one I enable. You can use the built-in rsync backup jobs, they should work with the Synology if you get the path, etc right.
This guide might help: https://kb.netgear.com/29730/How-do-I-back-up-data-from-a-RAIDiator-4-system-to-a-ReadyNAS-OS-6-system
Note the OS 4 system parts don't apply - you'd need to track down the equivalent settings in the Synology.
There is also an advanced setting missing on the OS 6 setup - "Remove Deleted Files on Target". I use that, in conjunction with RN312 snapshots. Files deleted on the main NAS, are also deleted on the backup - but I can still get them on the backup NAS using the snapshots if I need to.
I use one backup job per share. The backup NAS is set to use daily snapshots (created before the nightly backups run). I use custom snapshots, and for most shares I set the retention to 3 months. For one share that has high "churn" I set retention to two weeks. Those settings give me reasonable retention with reasonable snapshot disk space.
Blanker-2 wrote:
I was going to have the netgear just sleep or power down or something in between backup jobs since i want to be mindful of excess electric costs.You can set up a power schedule on the RN312. If you use snapshots, then you'd want to be careful to make sure the NAS is turned on when those are maintained. Also, running the backup jobs on the ReadyNAS is the best approach, since you want to ensure that the NAS is fully up before they are started (and that it won't shut down until they are completed). The NAS will postpone the scheduled shutdown if a backup job is still running.
My RN524 backup NAS is powered up between 11 pm and 1 am, with backups scheduled for midnight. Disk spindown is also enabled (since the NAS is usually idle for most of that time).
- Thanks for the info Stephen. I'll let you know how it goes.
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