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Back up ready NAS to a portable HD for off site backkup
We have a ready NAS with 2 drives installed. I was wondering what is the best way to backup the contents. I am worried about disk failure, but also want to cover ourselves if the office were to burn d...
Yes, that will work.
dcvh007 wrote: We have a ready NAS with 2 drives installed. I was wondering what is the best way to backup the contents. I am worried about disk failure, but also want to cover ourselves if the office were to burn down / blow up / disappear etc! Can I attached a 1TB portable / external drive to the NAS, do a backup, then remove and take it out of the building?
Thanks
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There are also cloud backup services that can be used for disaster recovery (crashplan, readynas vault, etc). They have the benefit of running automatically.
A third option is to deploy another readynas in a different location and connect the two locations with a VPN tunnel. Then you can use Frontview backup to do nightly backups to the remote NAS over the internet.
These last two options require good internet speeds. Also CrashPlan won't run on a duo, it needs an x86 platform (ultra or pro).
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