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Best practice for configuring my NAS
Hi Experts, Hope you can assist me, or tell me I am on the right/wrong track. I guess I am after how other people user their NAS devices for reference. Sorry in advance for the long post. Summar...
StephenB - Thanks for the reply.
I have external 3TB and 5TB USB3 Drives that I forgot to mention - as they are currently configured to backup my 'server' every night and sync changes from TVShows, Movies, RecordedTV, pictures, Music, Books etc. Once I move all this to the NAS, then they will be connected to the back of the NAS and put into play there instead. I was saving that for another post as there seems to be much discussion on that. I want a backup that is readable by windows so when I go away on holiday etc, I grab those drives and put them in the boot of the car at the airport. The documents are synced to dropbox which covers the most important. The workstuff is synced to another external USB drive that goes to and from work with me (and synced to work PC also). This drive also is copied to my work PC.
This will all be another post.
In reply to your 'local documents' question - I guess I am after what others do ? I am fine to work off the NAS or also fine to work locally and backup to the nas. The build in readynas app on the 'server' pc however creates backup folders I dont really like (SERVER - Documents, SEVER - Pictures, Server - Music), so I think I would prefer to either :
1 - keep on the PC server and manually sync to the shares on the nas as required (backups therefore are done in that process, plus the ability to ready those NAS folders should the kids ever want too).
2 - keep it on the nas and work from the NAS (and lose the speed of my local SSD drive).
I will ignore IScsi for this functionality for now then (but will use it for my future vmware vsphere as is the norm)
Thanks again.
I have external 3TB and 5TB USB3 Drives that I forgot to mention - as they are currently configured to backup my 'server' every night and sync changes from TVShows, Movies, RecordedTV, pictures, Music, Books etc. Once I move all this to the NAS, then they will be connected to the back of the NAS and put into play there instead. I was saving that for another post as there seems to be much discussion on that. I want a backup that is readable by windows so when I go away on holiday etc, I grab those drives and put them in the boot of the car at the airport. The documents are synced to dropbox which covers the most important. The workstuff is synced to another external USB drive that goes to and from work with me (and synced to work PC also). This drive also is copied to my work PC.
This will all be another post.
In reply to your 'local documents' question - I guess I am after what others do ? I am fine to work off the NAS or also fine to work locally and backup to the nas. The build in readynas app on the 'server' pc however creates backup folders I dont really like (SERVER - Documents, SEVER - Pictures, Server - Music), so I think I would prefer to either :
1 - keep on the PC server and manually sync to the shares on the nas as required (backups therefore are done in that process, plus the ability to ready those NAS folders should the kids ever want too).
2 - keep it on the nas and work from the NAS (and lose the speed of my local SSD drive).
I will ignore IScsi for this functionality for now then (but will use it for my future vmware vsphere as is the norm)
Thanks again.
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