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Remote backup to my NAS from my family
Dear all, I've just installed a Readynas Ultra 2 at home, which isn't my first attempt to create a safe backup for mine and my family's photos and documents, but I hope it will be a successful one...
Hi Stephen, thanks for your comments.
Your suggestion sounds reasonable, I can definitely go with separate shares for different users. I can make a yet separate share where I send them files, in 95% of the cases it's photos which I want to share with all of them (and the rest is never private stuff), so that makes sense as well. EDIT: this could maybe be a mapped network drive where they only have read-access, so I don't actually send them the files
Good question. I figure the NAS is meant to function as a backup, not a server. The real data stays on their computers, I primarily want to make backups of it. So I guess they should have some sort of (3rd party) software which takes care of the backup work to the NAS. I presume this also means that they shouldn't put files on a mapped network drive, but rather on the internal drive, from where it is copied to the network drive? (If it should even be done this way, maybe an FTP solution or something else is the right way, this is why I'm asking :) )
Again, thanks for your input!
Your suggestion sounds reasonable, I can definitely go with separate shares for different users. I can make a yet separate share where I send them files, in 95% of the cases it's photos which I want to share with all of them (and the rest is never private stuff), so that makes sense as well. EDIT: this could maybe be a mapped network drive where they only have read-access, so I don't actually send them the files
Good question. I figure the NAS is meant to function as a backup, not a server. The real data stays on their computers, I primarily want to make backups of it. So I guess they should have some sort of (3rd party) software which takes care of the backup work to the NAS. I presume this also means that they shouldn't put files on a mapped network drive, but rather on the internal drive, from where it is copied to the network drive? (If it should even be done this way, maybe an FTP solution or something else is the right way, this is why I'm asking :) )
Again, thanks for your input!
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