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Need recommendation on low-cost NAS
I want to find a low-cost NAS that can take the place of an external USB drive being used for Acronis backup images. I'm told that a NAS can be set up on a LAN as a network share, but never having worked with one I don't know how that will be done. I read the documentation for a Synology DS120j, but ALL it said at the end of the setup guide was that the "NAS is now online and detectable from a network computer". But I'm thinking what I really want is a way to configure the NAS with a share name on the LAN--just as you can do with a share on a PC.
Is there a good low-cost NAS that will let me do such a configuration--or am on "the wrong track" here? TIA
Is there a good low-cost NAS that will let me do such a configuration--or am on "the wrong track" here? TIA
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Why would you want to be switching between two NAS devices, making them look the same?
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"Why would you want to be switching between two NAS devices, making them look the same?"
I want to switch between NAS devices each week in order to make one set of backup images inaccessible to hackers at all times--after seeing a colleague have his Macrium images on a LAN get corrupted by ransomware. I figure if it can happen to Macrium images, it can happen to the Acronis images that many of my customers make. If one week of images is sitting over on a corner desk, I figure that is going to be a cheap and easy way to keep them safe from hackers.
I want to switch between NAS devices each week in order to make one set of backup images inaccessible to hackers at all times--after seeing a colleague have his Macrium images on a LAN get corrupted by ransomware. I figure if it can happen to Macrium images, it can happen to the Acronis images that many of my customers make. If one week of images is sitting over on a corner desk, I figure that is going to be a cheap and easy way to keep them safe from hackers.
Interesting...
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I use WD MyCloud NAS drives for backups. Very easy to use and can cope with backups over a 1GB link.
Please make sure your network is properly designed (all clients Gigabit, as well as all network switches etc).
If possible, try to calculate every nightly backup, from how many clients combined to how many TB of data.
Going cheap sometimes means, not all backups will be finished in the morning (either due to limited networking bandwidth, or limited write speeds of the NAS).
If you have 10 or more PC's doing a full image backup, I'd probably go for a 2 or 4 bay RAID 0 (since you have a second device, you could forego the extra mirroring option in the RAID).
If possible, try to calculate every nightly backup, from how many clients combined to how many TB of data.
Going cheap sometimes means, not all backups will be finished in the morning (either due to limited networking bandwidth, or limited write speeds of the NAS).
If you have 10 or more PC's doing a full image backup, I'd probably go for a 2 or 4 bay RAID 0 (since you have a second device, you could forego the extra mirroring option in the RAID).
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Can I make it work that way?