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jason92s
Aspirant
Jul 09, 2015

ReadyNAS 312 Need Help Understanding Snapshots

We're about to pull the trigger on a ReadyNAS 312 with either two 2TB or 4TB drives. We have about 290GB of data files. Ideally we'd like to have daily snapshots, but I'm unsure how much data a snaps...
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CLHatch
Luminary
Jul 30, 2015
I'm thinking what I might do is keep it as is with offline access turned on, but set up a backup to my 4TB data drive on my PC as you suggested. We currently don't both edit files in that share, but it is good to know that she can still access the files if the NAS is rebooting, etc, and they'll sync back to it once it comes back online.
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 30, 2015
CLHatch wrote:
I'm thinking what I might do is keep it as is with offline access turned on, but set up a backup to my 4TB data drive on my PC as you suggested. We currently don't both edit files in that share, but it is good to know that she can still access the files if the NAS is rebooting, etc, and they'll sync back to it once it comes back online.

Makes sense to me.  I like that better than depending on offline access as a backup. 

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    CLHatch
    Luminary
    Jul 31, 2015
    StephenB wrote:
    CLHatch wrote:
    I'm thinking what I might do is keep it as is with offline access turned on, but set up a backup to my 4TB data drive on my PC as you suggested. We currently don't both edit files in that share, but it is good to know that she can still access the files if the NAS is rebooting, etc, and they'll sync back to it once it comes back online.

    Makes sense to me.  I like that better than depending on offline access as a backup. 

    Got it backing up those important files to my desktop.  I installed DeltaCopy on my desktop, and did a rsync backup using that... saw it complained about a long filename, did some googling, then updated the rsync, ssh, and libraries in the install folder to the latest from cygwgin to fix that.  Thanks for the advice.

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