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dedicating 2nd ethernet port for backups.. how?
Using a pair of 516's (or any two readynas devices with dual ethernet), is there a way to use the second ethernet port for a direct connect to the second NAS for only backups? For example, I have t...
Gary,
Have you actually tried what you are proposing in practice?
Could you run a backup job, for example at midnight, or at an off peak time.?
Backups between 2 NAS on a LAN should be pretty quick for small data transfers.
Have you considered Replicate, which deals with incremental changes?
In theory, you could set the 2nd NIC of each NAS to static IP,
eg 192.168.x.210 and 192.168.x.211, same subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and try a backup job.
There are no KB articles exactly matching your proposal.
Static IP [http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7001/url]
Sparc to OS6 [url:lj1labig]http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7054
Basic OS6 Backup articles are linked off
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23420
Regards, Marto
Have you actually tried what you are proposing in practice?
Could you run a backup job, for example at midnight, or at an off peak time.?
Backups between 2 NAS on a LAN should be pretty quick for small data transfers.
Have you considered Replicate, which deals with incremental changes?
In theory, you could set the 2nd NIC of each NAS to static IP,
eg 192.168.x.210 and 192.168.x.211, same subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and try a backup job.
There are no KB articles exactly matching your proposal.
Static IP [http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7001/url]
Sparc to OS6 [url:lj1labig]http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7054
Basic OS6 Backup articles are linked off
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23420
Regards, Marto
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