If you’re an IT professional, you’ve realized that cloud backup is a great way to get data offsite. But you’ve probably also realized that it can take weeks or months to get large data sets “seeded” to the cloud. The normal method is to use a USB drive to copy the data onsite, and then ship that…
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Incremental Replication over the Internet Highly Reliable Systems (HRS), has added bi-directional incremental replication over the Internet to their NetSwap Plus removable drive Network Attached Storage (NAS) backup appliances. The feature will also be available in certain network connected RAIDFrame models. A Netswap Basic edition is available without replication. A key differentiator of these compared…
How to Backup Amazon S3 with Reverse Cloud
RAID5 and RAID6 still work. Google “RAID5” and you’ll quickly find articles that warn you never to use it. The claim is RAID5 won’t protect your data and is doomed to failure. People even claim RAID6 (which protects against 2 drives failing) is dangerous. We’re here to tell you that for backup appliances this advice…
In some cases, box-to-box replication is needed, or desired. Customers may want to replicate from a branch office to the main office, or from a small business location to the owner’s home. There are a variety of methods you can use to setup data replication between two RNAS appliances, but here we will recommend two:…