Setting up a NAS

[Volt]

I run 2 of the ReadyNas at my office and take care of a lawyer and doctors office. Small company requirements are very unique as compared to the domain setup a larger office might have.

The NAS have nice redundancy in the RAID and feed the clients fairly fast. Based on my clients needs I have them backing the NAS up to single drive external drives (ethernet or USB depending on their budget). Redundant drives ARE NOT a backup plan. Buildings burn and multiple drives can fail. Always have off site backups. My lawyer and doctors clients for obvious reasons do not allow cloud storage.

The NAS are setup with passwords for some level of protection. This setup is technology low and works well for my smaller businesses using the KISS method. A few gigs... Both way to low and prolly not avalaible. Remember in a RAID setup 4 250G drives do not equate to 1T of storage. Better to have too much than to go small and spend more in 2 years because the drives are full.

If you need more specics, PM me and I'll help where I can.

[357]

These ended up being too small for my company, but are perfect for small-med/small businesses.

http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/...p_features.php

Small fee for the device, and it replicates the data off to two datacenters; one on the east coast one on the west coast. It includes automated backup software/agents.

[Kreth]

Originally Posted by Volt

Always have off site backups.

This needs repeating.
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[Volt]

Originally Posted by Kreth

This needs repeating.
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So I will. On site backups are great for restoring a deleted word file. They cannot be used to setup a new office in a different location when the creek floods the building over night and frys all the electronics. Wether you take it home daily or weekly depends on the pain of a lost weeks worth of work.