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dhl
Dec 05, 2013Luminary
Inexpensive NAS for over 4TB backups - recommendations?
To date, we've backed up our ReadyNAS Pros using cheap USB drives. This has served us well over the past three years but as we move forward to much larger disks and volume capacity, I'm rethinking thi...
StephenB
Jan 10, 2014Guru - Experienced User
The RN102 is running rsync backup jobs running daily to back up shares on my pro-6.
dhl wrote: ...How often does your 102 make a snapshot? How often do you manually delete snapshots?
The shares are configured with the "continuous protection" interval of "daily", so snapshots are made 1/day. There's no benefit in making the snapshot interval faster than the backup job rate (though not much cost either).
I delete the snapshots every couple of months - no strict schedule to it If the file system exceeds 80% full, then the alert reminds me to delete them.
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