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Aspirant

Oct 13, 2017

Backing up readynas with other NAS via internet

Hi Everyone, I am using readynas 102 with two 2 TB drives. I keep all personal photos and videos as home archive. Data is relatively safe as disk works in RAID mode. But what If I get this disk stol...

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marekpolanski

Aspirant

Oct 13, 2017

Thank you very much for answer. Most important info is that it can be done.. I think I will need to contact som IT people at work to have it configured! Thank you

Marek

Amidala

NETGEAR Expert

Oct 16, 2017

If you buy another NAS, you can use backup to transfer and backup data over the network. You can choose the entire data volume, and then select the Rsync protocol, so that the speed of transmission can be faster!

BTW , the source is RN102, the destination is another NAS, but overall, RN102's performance is slightly worse, it takes a long time to do volume backups.

Sandshark
Sensei - Experienced User
Oct 16, 2017
The backup process itself is rather straight forward. Setting up a VPN or rsync over SSH, so it can be done securely to a remote location, not so much. Especially not so much if there is a firewall on one end (as there likely is at work). So, yes, getting one of the IT folks involved is a good plan.

Unless you get a seriously underpowered NAS for the remote system, like an old NV+ or Duo, you are probably best off pulling from the backup system instead of pushing from the 102 to the backup. That lets you have the remote system only power on to do the backups, and uses less CPU of the local system in case you are using it concurrently with the backup. A disadvantage, though, is no local backup log.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  Oct 16, 2017
  Sandshark wrote:
  
  A disadvantage, though, is no local backup log.
  
  I use "pull" backups myself. A second disadvantage is that "push" backup begins with a snapshot - keeping the backup coherent - but the "pull" backup doesn't. If the backups are run off-hours, that is not a big concern.