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Securing Frontview Backups to Portable Drives
Hi All
Newbie here, so apologies if this is a repeat, but I couldn't find anything in the forum about this.
My set-up:
1. ReadyNAS Duo with x2 2TB SATA drives on Raid 1
2. x2 Seagate 1TB Go Flex USB Portable Drives
What I would like to achieve:
A nightly backup of the NAS (we have about 500GB of data, so the 1TB Seagates are more than enough) on a round-robin basis, i.e. I swap the portable drives each weekday, taking one off site with me. The key to this is the backed up data on the portable drives remain secure, so should a drive fall into the wrong hands, the data is not directly accessible.
What I have set-up so far:
I have added the two Seagates as shares on the NAS (BackupDrive1 & 2) and have created x2 backup jobs on Frontview utilising each portable drive. I have set the backup to start weekdays at 22.05 - 7.05. I appreciate that this means one backup fails to start each night, owing to the drive not physically being there (having taken it off site)
I do have BackupExec which I could use to manage the drives as 'devices', however, given that there are only two portable drives, this might be overkill. So my questions to the forum are:
1. Can you recommend a less complicated way of selecting backup devices using either Frontview, an addon or some decent shareware?
2. A way to ensure that the backup data is secure once on the drives (as a side note, I did try to manage user access to the backup drives as a share, however, the 'owner' remained 'root' on the portable drives, meaning whoever plugged in one of the Seagates would have access to its data)
Many thanks in advance for your recommendations...
Regards
Nuzzington
Newbie here, so apologies if this is a repeat, but I couldn't find anything in the forum about this.
My set-up:
1. ReadyNAS Duo with x2 2TB SATA drives on Raid 1
2. x2 Seagate 1TB Go Flex USB Portable Drives
What I would like to achieve:
A nightly backup of the NAS (we have about 500GB of data, so the 1TB Seagates are more than enough) on a round-robin basis, i.e. I swap the portable drives each weekday, taking one off site with me. The key to this is the backed up data on the portable drives remain secure, so should a drive fall into the wrong hands, the data is not directly accessible.
What I have set-up so far:
I have added the two Seagates as shares on the NAS (BackupDrive1 & 2) and have created x2 backup jobs on Frontview utilising each portable drive. I have set the backup to start weekdays at 22.05 - 7.05. I appreciate that this means one backup fails to start each night, owing to the drive not physically being there (having taken it off site)
I do have BackupExec which I could use to manage the drives as 'devices', however, given that there are only two portable drives, this might be overkill. So my questions to the forum are:
1. Can you recommend a less complicated way of selecting backup devices using either Frontview, an addon or some decent shareware?
2. A way to ensure that the backup data is secure once on the drives (as a side note, I did try to manage user access to the backup drives as a share, however, the 'owner' remained 'root' on the portable drives, meaning whoever plugged in one of the Seagates would have access to its data)
Many thanks in advance for your recommendations...
Regards
Nuzzington
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- The only way to prevent access to the data if a drive were to be lost or stolen would be to encrypt the data on the drive. This is beyond the scope of what the Frontview backup manager can do, so you'll need to use third party backup software.
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