10 PC Office Data Storage Recommendations
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@MattSpeller said:
Synology DS412+ (cloudsync user's folders is niiiiiice)
Setup a backup to cloud if you have the bandwidth, IOsafe or something else if you dont.
This is what I am looking to get more info on.
I convinced them to stop storing data on desktops and buy a NAS. Now I am just looking for the last peice ... how do get their data from the NAS to an offsite location.
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@BRRABill Well I can tell you that the cloudsync thing is pretty slick. It's like modern day folder redirection but better. Can go into more detail with screen shots etc if you like.
For offsite backups we replicate to another synology nas using their built in software. It works.... alright. I'd prefer another way but we work with what we've got.
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@johnhooks said:
You can't do incremental backups unless you set up multiple volumes. If you only have one volume it will only do a full backup.
I was browsing through the help files for the device, and it looks like you can do other than full backup? Or am I reading this wrong?
"With the block-level backup option, your NAS will back up only modified blocks, and this is practical especially when the backup is executed over the Internet"
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@BRRABill said:
@johnhooks said:
You can't do incremental backups unless you set up multiple volumes. If you only have one volume it will only do a full backup.
I was browsing through the help files for the device, and it looks like you can do other than full backup? Or am I reading this wrong?
"With the block-level backup option, your NAS will back up only modified blocks, and this is practical especially when the backup is executed over the Internet"
You can do it, but you need to set up more than one volume on the disks. It won't do it if you only set up one large volume. So either make multiple volumes, attach a USB drive, or send it over the network.
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@johnhooks said:
You can do it, but you need to set up more than one volume on the disks. It won't do it if you only set up one large volume. So either make multiple volumes, attach a USB drive, or send it over the network.
I'm looking for a way to get the data offsite.
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@scottalanmiller said:
If you have something like RSnapshots as a backup process, that would be fine. but just mirroring isn't useful.
Can you explain this?
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BTW: from Googling around tonight, it appears the SYnology can also be setup to use commercial backup programs like CrashPlan.
Though that CloudSync that @MattSpeller is talking about also looks killer.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
If you have something like RSnapshots as a backup process, that would be fine. but just mirroring isn't useful.
Can you explain this?
Rsnapshot will let you set up hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly snapshots. We have rsnapshot running 10 hourly snapshots, 7 daily, 4 weekly, etc to our synology. We have a decent amount of hourlys because we do a lot of CAD work and if someone needs to go back and get a version from 2 hours ago it's easy to do.
It just uses rsync with hard links to do incremental backups and stores them in separate folders.
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@BRRABill said:
BTW: from Googling around tonight, it appears the SYnology can also be setup to use commercial backup programs like CrashPlan.
Though that CloudSync that @MattSpeller is talking about also looks killer.
Synology does a LOT of stuff. You can add so many things to it through its "app store" and you can get full root access so anything that runs on generic Linux can be installed on it just fine, too.
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@BRRABill said:
BTW: from Googling around tonight, it appears the SYnology can also be setup to use commercial backup programs like CrashPlan.
Though that CloudSync that @MattSpeller is talking about also looks killer.
It does, but we have a VM specifically for that. I don't how it would perform on the synology, but I didn't want to add any more services to it. The VM just mounts the normal shares and backs them up to Crashplan.
