I've been using Duplicati where I need a standalone backup of a thing. Web based management interface makes it super simple to manage.

You check this? http://www.readynas.com/download/documentation/support/ReadyNAS-LED.pdf

you can set static entries in EdgeOS.

Always set DHCP to give out the ERL for DNS. set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 dns-server 10.254.103.1 Always set the ERL to look at itself for a DNS (127.0.0.1 set system name-server 127.0.0.1 Make sure that DNS is listening on your LAN ports. set service dns forwarding listen-on eth1 set service dns forwarding listen-on eth1.2 Set DNS forward lookup to whatever. set service dns forwarding name-server 10.254.103.4 # my Pi-Hole set service dns forwarding name-server 1.1.1.1 If oyu are on a domain, tell EdgeOS to forward those to the DC. set service dns forwarding options server=/ad.domain.com/10.254.0.21 set service dns forwarding options server=/domain.local/10.254.0.21 set service dns forwarding options server=/domain/10.254.0.21 Set up your static DNS entries. set system static-host-mapping host-name nas inet 10.254.103.7

@DustinB3403 said in Backup Options - Licensing Costs - Storage Targets:

@dafyre said in Backup Options - Licensing Costs - Storage Targets:

When we start looking, we'll start with the usual culprits like Veeam. ShadowProtect comes highly recommended to me by several folks (Including the guy who just built the ReadyNAS)... We'd hit the other major players as well.

So cost is going to bite you in the ass, since you said there were concerns about licensing. But they are all valid options.

@dafyre said in Backup Options - Licensing Costs - Storage Targets:

Good Backup Compression / Deduplication is a must. We have ~30TB of systems and data.

You can perform the compression on your storage layer or use dedup or both. This may affect the overall performance though.

@dafyre said in Backup Options - Licensing Costs - Storage Targets:

We don't care if it's full install, agent based, or Hypervisor based. It just needs to work.

Based on this I would think Agent based would be a decent option. But didn't you say you have something along the lines of 300 VMs? Might become tedious.

Yeah, we'd likely do the dedupe at the Storage layer. Our Current Nimble devices do this relatively well with our live data. Something like 1.3 or 1.4 to 1 compression is what i remember. It may be more or less.

If we went Agent based, we can push the agents via PDQ Deploy for Windows and a shell script or something for Linux. (Most of our Production Linux systems are SLES 12)... If reboots are required, systems can be rebooted during our patch window... (5-7am every day).

@obsolesce said in Fedora 28 and network share:

smb://server/share

Thanks - I'll give that a go in the future.

@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS: ReadyNAS Remote:

would have opted to just use OwnCloud (at the time) or NextCloud.

Sorry 😞 I wish it was different.

@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS ReadyCLOUD usage:

@JaredBusch said in ReadyNAS ReadyCLOUD usage:

Why would you expect a cloud service to work without authentication? Internal only or not.

Why would I expect it to work with out 'auth'

It worked out of the box, I enabled it on the ReadyNAS, installed the iOS app, and connected.

After the update(s) - now it forces you to sign into NETGEAR - ....

Why would you expect a cloud service to work without auth.

I am not arguing that it did work.

lol - the ultimate in ransomware protection. watch they don't raise prices, that's a premium feature

Those little Atom processors that they tend to use (I miss the Sparc32 days, it was just more interesting) use very little electrical power and produce very little heat and tend to last for forever. Pretty much unbeatable.

As mentioned earlier, I would be interested, but would like to know more about the lab now that you have all in place, on what do we get to play with

@coliver said:

A bit off topic... are ReadyNAS devices built on a Debian core?

Yes, all of our OSes for ReadyNAS devices use Debian.

Thanks!

That 3220 is getting to a much better price point. Very competitive with used* gear now and you get a warranty!

*for small shops

http://tinyurl.com/kgzhyom
Looking at a 4 bay compared to the 2 bay....

I like the options of the 312 series.. but don't have the funds for a 4 bay unit. This is for personal use at home....

Nice!

Awesome 🙂 I want free stuff too

@mdgm welcome, awesome to see Netgear here in the community!

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller Seagate surprised me with what a POS their NAS offering is. Not at all happy with it.

Drive makers don't make the best storage appliances. Just doesn't go together. Their interest is in selling drives. WD does a little better, but it is a weak offering too. It's RAID 5 only so that you have to buy super expensive RE drives.