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Killbill1
Oct 11, 2011Aspirant
Backup business stuff to nas at home
Hi, I want to backup my business stuff to a nas/server at home to be safe in case of fire. So that would mean backing up through the internet. Initial backup would be around 50 Gig, and after that i...
mdgm-ntgr
Oct 11, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
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.
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.
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