RN2120- Automatic PC Backup

I am thinking of purchasing an RN2120 but looking at disk solutions and trying to work out how many disks we would require.

Does anyone know the average size on a complete Automatic Backup using the NEW PC app. Does the Backup get compressed at all when it saves to the ReadyNAS.

If anyone can provide any guidence on this as I cannot see anything obvious on the website.

Thanks

Simon.

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StephenB
Jan 22, 2016
nomis23uk wrote:

Can't seem to edit above. I was also curious after looking at the demo link...Backup Jobs - can these be setup to backup a \\192.168.1.10\c$ share to the NAS?

or is backup jobs only for backup between NAS drives?

You can backup from (or to) a Windows share also.

C$ likely won't work well - you certainly can't backup up the C drive in windows by trying to copy the files. Many are locked down, and/or always open. If you want to do a full PC backup, then you'll need to use a PC backup tool (which can write to the NAS). I use Acronis TrueImage myself. There is a guide for using Windows Backup here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24913

I've never attempted using an administrative share (which is what the $ means), it is possible that the NAS backup won't handle the $.

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JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 20, 2016
Hello nomis23uk,

Welcome to the community!

Are you referring to a backup client installed to a computer? Or the backup job in the admin page?

There is no setting on the admin page of the NAS where it will allow you to configure or set a size for backup files that come in from another server. However, it is possible to configure 1 volume for the backup.

Here is a simulator you can use to test and look around what you can possibly do on the NAS: https://rndemo.netgear.com/admin/

It is using the default login.

Regards,
- nomis23uk
  Aspirant
  Jan 22, 2016
  Thanks for the welcome.
  
  I was looking at the automatic backup / Sync from a client computer to a the ReadyNAS.
  
  I was curious if Netgear have programmed in to compress the backup or does it do it like for like.
  
  For example lets say:
  
  User A chooses to sync the documents folder thats 1.4gb in size, when the backup job completes will this take up 1.4gb on the NAS?
  
  thanks.
- nomis23uk
  Aspirant
  Jan 22, 2016
  Can't seem to edit above. I was also curious after looking at the demo link...Backup Jobs - can these be setup to backup a \\192.168.1.10\c$ share to the NAS?
  
  or is backup jobs only for backup between NAS drives?
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jan 22, 2016
    nomis23uk wrote:
    
    Can't seem to edit above. I was also curious after looking at the demo link...Backup Jobs - can these be setup to backup a \\192.168.1.10\c$ share to the NAS?
    
    or is backup jobs only for backup between NAS drives?
    
    You can backup from (or to) a Windows share also.
    
    C$ likely won't work well - you certainly can't backup up the C drive in windows by trying to copy the files. Many are locked down, and/or always open. If you want to do a full PC backup, then you'll need to use a PC backup tool (which can write to the NAS). I use Acronis TrueImage myself. There is a guide for using Windows Backup here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24913
    
    I've never attempted using an administrative share (which is what the $ means), it is possible that the NAS backup won't handle the $.