Backup business stuff to nas at home

What would be best is to purchase two NAS units. This way you could have both an on-site and off-site backup. I would put both NAS units at the office initially for the full backup and then take the off-site backup NAS home. I recommend getting a couple of Pro Series devices and using ReadyNAS Replicate (http://www.readynas.com/replicate).

If you want to stick to one NAS, what are you running on the machine that stores your business stuff (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux)?

Regardless of which option you choose for your needs the Pro 2 (RNDP2000) would be fine.

By how much does your data tend to change between backups?

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks for you recommendation, i'll look into it.
In the office i work on a intel mac pro, at home on a macbook. So i prefer not to have an extra computer
at home for backup purphases only.
Data change per day will be around 5 gig's.

5GB is a lot of data to backup each night. Do you mean 5GB of new data. You'd need a pretty decent internet quota and quite a high upload speed to backup that each night.

If you were maxing out a 1Mbit upload connection 100KB/s = roughly 6MB per minute = 360 MB/hour = roughly 15 hours to backup 5GB of data.

I'd be inclined to use Rsync over SSH with a Pro Series device. You can look at the ReadyNAS article on Rsync over SSH.

mdgm wrote:

5GB is a lot of data to backup each night. Do you mean 5GB of new data. You'd need a pretty decent internet quota and quite a high upload speed to backup that each night. If you were maxing out a 1Mbit upload connection 100KB/s = roughly 6MB per minute = 360 MB/hour = roughly 15 hours to backup 5GB of data. I'd be inclined to use Rsync over SSH with a Pro Series device. You can look at the ReadyNAS article on Rsync over SSH.

Will the Rsync via SSH work between and Readynas Duo and a Pro 2?