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Netgear or Buffalo NAS? Which is right for me?
I am with a small publishing company and I am considering moving our file sharing from a Mac OS Server, to a NAS with multiple drives for redundancy. I am looking at both Netgear and Buffalo Tech offerings. We are a nearly all Mac environment, so need something that plays well with AFP and Macs, and being able to use the NAS as a Time Machine server would be a nice added bonus. So far what I've read, it looks like Netgear puts a little more effort into being Mac friendly with their ReadyNAS products, compared to Buffalo, where Mac compatibility seems more of an after thought.
We have about 6 Macs that would do a bunch of opening files, making changes and saving those files back to the Fileserver, so keeping permission problems to a minimum, or at least easy to fix would be great.
Finally, after reading the Replicate option available, is this scenario possible and easily attainable? I would like to place one ReadyNAS at our main office for everyday production - our main production can easily be handled by 500GB of storage, with anything extra being used for time machine backup of our Mac workstations (so I'm thinking 2-3GB of total formatted capacity). I would like to then place a 2nd ReadyNAS at my boss's home office, and use Replicate to take care of both my backup AND offsite backup of the ReadyNAS at the main office. I would like the backup to be such that if the one at the main office would fail for any reason, I could simply retrieve the one from the home office, hook it up to the main office LAN, and all of our shares and files would be there, ready to keep on working with minimal down time.
We have about 6 Macs that would do a bunch of opening files, making changes and saving those files back to the Fileserver, so keeping permission problems to a minimum, or at least easy to fix would be great.
Finally, after reading the Replicate option available, is this scenario possible and easily attainable? I would like to place one ReadyNAS at our main office for everyday production - our main production can easily be handled by 500GB of storage, with anything extra being used for time machine backup of our Mac workstations (so I'm thinking 2-3GB of total formatted capacity). I would like to then place a 2nd ReadyNAS at my boss's home office, and use Replicate to take care of both my backup AND offsite backup of the ReadyNAS at the main office. I would like the backup to be such that if the one at the main office would fail for any reason, I could simply retrieve the one from the home office, hook it up to the main office LAN, and all of our shares and files would be there, ready to keep on working with minimal down time.
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joesporleder wrote: So far what I've read, it looks like Netgear puts a little more effort into being Mac friendly with their ReadyNAS products, compared to Buffalo, where Mac compatibility seems more of an after thought.
Go with the ReadyNAS. NetGear is a customer of the company that develops AFP/Time Machine support for Linux.joesporleder wrote:
Finally, after reading the Replicate option available, is this scenario possible and easily attainable? I would like to place one ReadyNAS at our main office for everyday production - our main production can easily be handled by 500GB of storage, with anything extra being used for time machine backup of our Mac workstations (so I'm thinking 2-3GB of total formatted capacity). I would like to then place a 2nd ReadyNAS at my boss's home office, and use Replicate to take care of both my backup AND offsite backup of the ReadyNAS at the main office. I would like the backup to be such that if the one at the main office would fail for any reason, I could simply retrieve the one from the home office, hook it up to the main office LAN, and all of our shares and files would be there, ready to keep on working with minimal down time.
If the main NAS failed the Replicate backup would need to be restored. For what you want you'd be better to use Frontview backup. You wouldn't get multiple revisions of files using Frontview backup though.
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