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NetSwap/RAIDFrame Plus Software Version 2.17 Update This is the software version 2.17 update for NetSwaps/RAIDFrame Plus devices with software version 2.16 and older. For devices with software version 2.12 or later you should be able to use the ‘Check for Updates’ menu option from the NetSwap web interface to download and install the update directly…
High-Rely-USB-Installer-2.17.0.0.exe This program will install a NetSwap/RAIDFrame Plus or BNAS Restore Key image onto a USB Flash drive. Two gigabyte or larger USB Flash drive required (there should have been one included with your system).
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – Ben Franklin One of the more popular backup software packages is StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect. This document discusses preparing an emergency recovery environment using that software that will work with any USB 2.0 connected Highly Reliable Systems removable disk backup product. In a Disaster Scenario one…
Highly Reliable Systems announced that their website has moved into Google’s coveted #2 slot behind HP for the term “Removable Disk Backup Systems”. “Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and natural search is important to any business. We wanted our customers to know we were leaders in removable disk backup systems.” said Kelley Kirtley, Head of East…
Replication Information for NetSwap Plus Executive Summary 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…
Network Attached Storage (NAS) boxes are very common to add shared storage to a small business network infrastructure. While providing an inexpensive and convenient way to store extra data, there are some common pitfalls to avoid if you choose to use conventional NAS drives or appliances for your backup. Highly Reliable Systems makes specialized backup NAS appliances and Directly Attached Storage (DAS) devices. Each has a place. In this overview we outline Pros and Cons of conventional NAS, NAS for backup, and DAS.
As the size of information stored in the cloud grows increasingly larger, IT managers must plan on getting data out of the cloud when it’s critically needed during disaster recovery. For some businesses, the cloud is a place to deposit a second copy of data already retained locally. For others the cloud is primary storage, where unique data is created and modified. Problems arise in both cases: when local data is lost due to fire, flood, or theft, when the data is too large for a timely transfer across limited Internet bandwidth, or when a cloud provider shuts down. This all begs the question: is redundant data in place?
As more data moves across the Internet to it’s home in the cloud, many are still retaining primary and backup data within physical reach on their servers and backup appliances. This makes good business sense, considering that when disaster strikes the speed of transfer from cloud storage could take days compared to hours for a backup appliance such as our NetSwap NC350 Network Attached Storage (NAS) system. There are two scenarios administrators must plan for: backup and disaster recovery, commonly referred to as BDR.
Multi-Cloud Support means Automated Upload and Download for mission critical files One unique feature of the RNAS product line is the inclusion of a license for High-Sync with Multi-Cloud capability. This can be used to create multiple replication jobs to several supported clouds. These jobs allow file sync between local and network drives, as well…
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…
A recent report points out significant privacy issues with electronic storage devices that could include removable drives, tablets, cameras and other devices. The study, which was conducted by Laplink and O&O Software out of Germany tested 160 randomly purchased used hard drives and other storage devices. Using un-erase software, researchers were able to get data…
Modern SATA hard drives have internal counters for soft errors, number of hours run, power cycles etc. These counters were originally intended to help predict hard drive failure. The SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) data can be accessed through our NetSWAP interface and may be available using various open source software for direct attached…
With the release in Oct 2012 of a 4 bay Network Attached RAIDFrame Plus, another nail will be put in the coffin of tape. RAIDFrames use the largest removable hard drive on the market called a RAIDPac. When we started the website tapesucks.com back in 2004 we actually thought tape would die more quickly. According…
Amazon S3 online storage is an inexpensive place for any amount of data. After creating an account on Amazon you can start storing data right away. There are no fixed monthly fees but you do pay a low monthly fee for any storage used and Gigabytes transferred. S3 can be specified as the left or right…
Removable Disk Backup Slow? Here are common reasons for slow removable disk backup in a bullet list. Scroll down or click to page jump to detailed explanations and suggestions. You Forgot to turn off Your Anti-virus software during backup. Your drive(s) are getting full, starting to use the inner cylinders. You are using small hard drives.…
Saving money on backup software is always a welcome idea. The backup that comes with Windows Server 2008 can work for some people and can create a “snapshot” of your server hard drive to standard .VHD files. The software works well with either our DAS or NAS equipment but if you’re using Virtual machines on…
This press release is from storagenewsletter.com Highly Reliable Systems Shipping Backup and DR NAS Appliance With removable drives, starting at $1,889 Highly Reliable Systems, Inc. is shipping mirroring backup NAS appliances based on Windows Storage Server called the BNAS 401 Series.The units are intended to allow customers to create their own Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR)…
Sage software, a leading provider of business management software recently determined that 60% of small businesses don’t “offsite” their data. The study, discussed here says that while nearly all U.S. small businesses back up critical financial data, 6 in 10 don’t get it off site. Removable disk backup systems can help overcome the high cost of moving…
Industry visionaries are concerned about storing everything in the cloud. Besides the numerous outages we’ve seen over the last few years concern is growing about the liability and ownership issues. In this article Apple Co-founder Wozniak says “I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” he said. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I…
Backing up to the cloud makes a lot of sense. There are a broad spectrum of vendors and prices and we always like to encourage people to do both local and cloud backup (hybrid cloud). I think the cloud vendors are different in different countries and it makes sense to pick one nearby (but not…
Suppose you were to run a burn in test on a brand new Seagate 3TB SATA drive, writing 3TB and then reading it back to confirm the data. Our standards are such that if a drive fails during 5 cycles we won’t ship it. Luckily, all 20 of 20 drives we tested last night passed. In fact, most of the 3TB drives we test every week passed this test. Why is that a big deal? Because there is a calculation floating around out there that shows when reading a full 3TB drive there is a 21.3% chance of getting an unrecoverable read error. Clearly the commonly used probability equation isn’t modeling reality. To me this raises red flags on previous work discussing the viability of both stand alone SATA drives and large RAID arrays.
Highly Reliable Systems, based in Reno, Nevada, has added replication to their NetSwap and RAIDFrame removable drive Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Intended for backup, these products provide removable drive and replication in one backup appliance. Replication is block level, incremental, encrypted, and scheduled. The Netswap Plus and RAIDFrame NAS appliances can also mirror between…
Perhaps one of the more confusing terms in networking is iSCSI (pronounced eye-SKUZ-ee). The acronym iSCSI is for Internet Small Computer System Interface. Most people think of SCSI as a type of hard drive, or a physical interface for a particular type of hard drive. This leads to confusion because iSCSI isn’t a physical interface. iSCSI…
Encryption is becoming a more important topic as more companies struggle to meet compliance requirements and keep their data secure. Encryption is used more than you might expect, including for various website security functions. Backups are another important area to consider using encryption on. To completely protect your data and your backup, you should consider…
Highly Reliable Systems now offers hardware encryption on select backup NAS devices. High-Rely supports AES encryption on many of our highly-removable drive backup appliances, allowing media to be safely transported. This article will discuss the encryption feature as supported on certain Netswap Plus and RAIDFrame Plus product lines (Not the BNAS or WBA Windows Storage Server based Appliances which have…
A customer asked for our latest thoughts on what is the Best Backup for Small Business. The choices include local (to USB or NAS) versus cloud backup (to the Internet), image backup verus file backup, using backup appliances (NAS) versus a full BDR (Backup and Disaster Recovery) appliance. There can be a reluctance for customers in…
How do you provide backup protection from Cryptolocker? This virus has the potential to not only lock you out of your server files, but potentially encrypt files located at network shares as well. Which means it could have devastating impact on backup data hosted on a local backup appliance if you keep the backup data online…
Many IT professionals are starting to think about how to backup Amazon S3 for local retention – i.e. how to do reverse cloud backup. If you’ve wondered how to backup from Amazon S3 buckets to disk so that there is a high speed local copy of cloud data, the NetSwap Plus product might be for you. While several cloud to cloud backup services exist, they have the disadvantage of incurring additional monthly fees and lower performance of the cloud.
Not long ago network administrators would backup their data to tape storage, and later onto hard disks. As managed service providers evolved with technology, IT professionals began replicating to the cloud. Online storage services such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, DreamHost DreamCloud, and Dropbox became popular destinations for offsite data retention. It seemed like such a good idea at the time, since local disks were small and cloud servers were large. Storage technology has continued to improve, and 8TB hard disk drives are now available for local retention. As free space has increased on servers, so have the storage needs of its users. Internet bandwidth has not kept up with improvements in storage technology, and slow speeds or high prices have made it necessary to “reverse cloud” backup data from online containers to local disks.
Like many of you, I’ve viewed the cloud computing backup hype with rolling eyes. Tonight I viewed a presentation by Amazon S3 executive that, while 45 minutes long, I felt was worth sharing. It convinced me the cloud computing backup is coming soon… and it may be something you want to watch in quiet time…
Our server backup appliances cost less, are easy to configure, and perform well, regardless of the task. High-Rely NetSwap, RAIDFrame, and BNAS backup appliances deliver the best of all worlds: highly-removable duty-rated backup media, 10GbE high-speed data recovery, large storage capacity up to 90TB, Cloud replication or Reverse-Cloud backup, open compatibility with BDR software, and technical support based in the USA.
Highly Reliable Systems manufactures true backup NAS appliances and that can be monitored with Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools such as LabTech, Kaseya, N-able, and others. Such tools may be used to generate tickets in ConnectWise. In this overview we outline some of the monitoring parameters offered. Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are popularly used for adding shared storage to a small business network. While providing an inexpensive and convenient way to store extra data, they do not have a true backup focus. Our backup appliances include highly-removable drives, auto-mirroring, offsite replication, virtual machine support, and remote monitoring functionality to provide the most reliable backup solution.
You can’t tell by looking at the physical connection whether a machine is using iSCSI or a Windows share. Both iSCSI connections and shared Windows hard drives use an Ethernet connection to attach storage. Since they use the same physical connection and network cable, it can be confusing to understand the difference. It used to be that an appliance that “shared” it’s drive was called a NAS (Network Attached Storage), and one that used iSCSI was called a SAN (Storage Area Network). This was because iSCSI was setup by installing a second network card in the server, and a dedicated link or Ethernet network was used for just storage traffic (hence the term storage area network versus local area network). Nowadays it’s not uncommon for even low end NAS devices to support the iSCSI software protocol, so the line can be somewhat blurry.
Removable drives are better than cloud services and conventional NAS/BDRs for Data BackUp because: 1. They are invulnerable to remote or virus attacks (when removed). It’s simple, it can’t be manipulated, deleted, or otherwise hacked if it’s powered off or sitting unattached somewhere. And removable drives can provide archive depth that not only dates back…
The NetSwap 200 Difference from other NAS products. NetSwap 200 is our most widely sold NAS product. Yet, with so many other NAS platforms to choose from, it’s hard to quickly understand the NetSwap 200 difference and possibilities. The NetSwap line offers the best of Cloud and removable drive technologies. We offer this graphic to help illustrate…
Data Loss Scenarios and their Recovery Solutions. TL;DR? Just call Sales Team 6 at 775-329-5139 🙂 A quick review of the most likely scenarios where you will experience data loss, corruption or theft and some solutions to prevent or recover, will help you check and plan for your vulnerabilities. Ask yourself if…
Through the course of a long career I have worked with many, many types of tape systems and consider myself a reasonably knowledgeable user of these systems. I have come to believe that tape doesn’t belong in any serious backup strategy if an alternative can be found, specifically removable hard disk systems like…
How to Password Protect Your .PDFs for Free We’re all nervous about the security of our email. It’s so convenient to send documents via email but it is sometimes best to encrypt or password protect sensitive data. This is especially true for documents such as tax returns, W2s, or other sensitive financial documents. It’s well…
We are often asked why our customers choose High-Rely Backup NAS products over consumer grade Network Attached Storage (NAS), expensive Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) devices, or USB hard drives. There are many different price points and feature sets available in the server backup world. Here, in a nutshell are some of the things our customers have told us they value that us the best choice for backup hardware.
With removable drives and box to box replication our clients may choose to avoid cloud backup to public data centers altogether. According to CloudBerry and a recent survey published on storagenewsletter.com enterprises continue to be concerned about security in the cloud.
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Removable Drive Backup System or the Cloud. A Cautionary Tale: A reseller we know uses MaxBackup (A GFI product) for backing up to the cloud for their customers. Apparently MaxBackup (and some other backup software) made a recent change to NOT backup hidden files and folders by default. The reasoning is files like pagefile.sys don’t…
Be Cautious when Deploying Backup to Cloud Protecting business data with backup to cloud is all the rage these days. This is where data is sent over the Internet to a data center in another location, usually by automated backup software. Once setup, the promise of backup to cloud is automatic, easy, and can be…
Scheduled Mirroring can protect against ransomware.
High-Rely’s DeltaSync is a feature designed as an alternative to RAID1 mirroring for very large hard drives. It should not be confused with the Microsoft protocol of the same name.
The BNAS series of products as well as certain DAS products use an AMT board (Automatic mirroring technology). The associated software is the JMicron HW RAID Manager. This software and the product functionality can be tricky. Here are a summary of the tips, with more detail and screen shots below: Don’t run multiple copies of…
Nature of problem: Apparent compatibility problems with large files (i.e >500GB). For example files created by StorageCraft or similar software as would occur when backing up a disk to a full to an image. If the hard drive is NTFS formatted by any NetSwap (version 2.15d and below) and you move the hard drive from…
Executive Summary: Removable hard drive functionality can be added to Arcserve UDP appliances by installing a NetSwap device on the network. This provides additional drive redundancy and can be used as an alternative or supplement to cloud storage. Case study results: A customer using a NetSwap 300 in NAS mode (shared CIFS hard drives) used…
Those of us who have used RJ45 cables for Ethernet have a tendency to want to use something similar when we’re considering an upgrade to 10GigE. It turns out using a “10GBaseT” card and the standard RJ45 connector based twisted pair patch cable might be the wrong choice. Although 10GBaseT with RJ45 connectors are fairly…
If you experience difficulty backing up with Acronis, you may need to go to the “Strict Allocate” feature under Windows networking (Advanced, Global options) and type in “No”. Save the settings to change. Version 2.15b of the software Changed Windows networking default settings to set strict-allocate to ‘no’ to fix backup failures using Acronis backup. …
Nature of problem: When moving a hard drive from Netswap to Windows, large files appear to be corrupted under Windows. Suggested Fix: Install Netswap version 2.15e If you remove a hard drive from High-Rely tray formatted and used with imaging software in a Netswap, then you install media (or raw drive) into a Windows environment…
Some customers have problems with a Netswap joining a domain, or with drive shares not coming back online after a drive swap. We believe some of these problems may indicate Windows “Name resolution problems” which classically are either DNS or WINS related. Both the Windows domain controller and the windows PC in a domain should…
Cloud-to-Local Backup (Reverse Cloud) Provides Data Consolidation Cloud-to-Local backup deals with the increasing use of the cloud storage, including the possibility that crypto viruses can reach into and encrypt mapped storage. This scenario, or an end user error of accidentally deleting files, may result in an unrecoverable loss of data. Even more importantly, you can…
Backup Dropbox to local drives with a delay. High-Sync allows you to push or pull files from Dropbox without using the DropBox application. The advantage of not installing the Dropbox app include the ability to manage multi-cloud backups from a variety of different sources in a single pane of glass (inside the High-Sync app), as…
Cloud-to-Cloud backup is becoming more important for protecting data from crypto-viruses, user errors, and vendor outages. The RNAS series of appliances can be used as cloud-to-cloud (C2C) backup appliances. Some of the reasons to do “reverse-cloud” or Cloud-to-Local jobs apply here as well. In the screenshot nearby, a test is underway which transfers a large…
Setting up Google Cloud Storage using Windows NAS (The RNAS series appliances) Google Cloud Storage using Windows NAS is possible because Google uses an Amazon S3 compatible (Object and Bucket based) cloud. This encompasses several storage options including multi-regional, regional, nearline, and coldline storage. Each of these looks the same to the end-user, the differences…
5 Elements of a Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliance (BDR) Rather than buying a BDR with high monthly fees and storage costs, you can use our hardware to build your own. Many of our backup NAS appliances can be used as a platform to create a Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) box. This is typically…
If you want to automatically email a file on a scheduled basis, you can do that with the RNAS product line. Any file stored on an RNAS appliance (or available via a share) can be automatically emailed using pop, Gmail, or O365 by using High-Sync’s email option. The screen shot below gives you an idea…
WIndows 10 IoT Enterprise is the same full Windows 10 Enterprise desktop operating system with a special license for the OEMs in an embedded market. Plus with the major advantage of long term support, which is always a requirement in IoT and the Embedded Systems market. Windows IoT Enterprise is essentially based on the Windows…
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:…
All our Windows BNAS products now ship with Windows Storage Server 2016.
To Install High-Sync on a Windows PC, select either the 32 bit or 64 bit version of the installer. The 64 bit version should have “64” in the name. If your CPU and version of Windows supports 64 bit, choose that. When the program starts click “Run” to begin the install. …
Restoring Files From Backup Storage Restoring files from a backup is done by copying in the opposite direction. Normally, the restore operation copies from the right-hand side back to the left-hand side. The Restore Wizard will guide you through the steps. Start by choosing “Wizard Mode” from the menu at the top. The screen should…
We’ve previously discussed the ability of the NetSwap NAS devices being able to encrypt using the Truecrypt algorithm. In this Blog, we’ll do a detailed walk through of setting it up. High-Rely NetSwap Plus Encryption Setup Guide Your NetSwap Plus Device is ready for Volume Encryption straight out of the box. Volume Encryption on the…
Recently, we have been receiving numerous phone calls due to power outages we have been seeing across the country, as a result of the heat wave. As a built-in feature, when the NetSwap is interrupted due to either a loss of power, or an errant disk pull; if there is an active RAID/Mirror set, the…
Amazon S3 5GB Limit Amazon S3 and compatible services used to have a 5GB object (file size) limit. Although Amazon Changed the total object limit in 2010 to 5TB it is still true that the largest object that can be uploaded in a single PUT command is 5 gigabytes. They require that the software uploading…
Wasabi Configuration with High-Sync Wasabi is a less expensive Amazon S3 compatible cloud. Further down in this blog you will see some screen shots on how to setup a Wasabi account. This may change slightly over time but the basics involve naming a bucket in lower case dns compatible format, then copying your access key…
Tech Support – READ FIRST The following document highlights some of the common problems seen when using Highly Reliable Systems Equipment. Please read through them prior to contacting tech support for assistance. First Steps: Makes sure that all power connections are securely seated Make sure that all cable connections (USB/eSATA/Cat5) are properly secured on the…
High-Sync is the software included with RNAS network attached storage products that allow the user to replicate files from drive to drive, drive to network, local to cloud, cloud to local, or even cloud to cloud. It supports multiple replication jobs and can be used for a wide variety of clouds and protocols. For an…
A brief overview on how to create an Automatic Replication Job that will start when drives are inserted into the RNAS. Create a new job Begin by creating a new job from the Profile Overview screen. In this example we have selected two drives for our paths. The left-hand path will be the Primary…
Have you heard of the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR? Do you do business in Europe or with European citizens? The GDPR regulation is intended to protect the privacy of individuals and has wide ranging implications for technology companies and data backup. After four years of preparation and debate the GDPR was finally approved…
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…
Multi-Cloud Replication Jobs Should run in Sequence – NOT in Parallel When scheduling Multi-Cloud or Multiple location jobs in High-Sync on RNAS products it is often desirable to use several distinct jobs or profiles and make sure one job finishes before another starts. This limits the use of available bandwidth, and prevents hard drive thrashing…
High-Sync is a simple Windows based backup/sync program that can be run as a scheluded service to regularly update files in a wide variety of ways. One license is included free with each RNAS windows based removable drive NAS products or may be purchased separately to run on any Windows machine. 64 bit version of…
Bandwidth Throttling of Internet Speed with High-Sync Bandwidth throttling of Cloud upload or download jobs with High-Sync is possible. The native speed you get without throttling will depend on how fast your connection is, along with other traffic currently using your pipe, other jobs running on your machine, and possibly other variables that depend on…
“Partial File Updating” – Incremental File Uploads with High-Sync Incremental File Uploads. High-Sync can detect which parts of a file have changed, and copy only the changed blocks rather than the complete file. The idea is to reduce copy time after the initial file has been uploaded. We also call this partial file updating. This…
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications have become “cloud backup applications”, and are increasingly popular. According to a survey of enterprise customers by Aberdeen Group, around 1/2 of firms are using the cloud for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software and email (with Exchange making up 19%). The high adoption rate reflects software manufacturer’s focus on recurring monthly revenue models versus the older sales models where software was purchased with yearly support or maintenance fees. By hosting their applications, software vendors such as Microsoft CRM and Salesforce.com create higher profit margins and create tighter linkage to the end user. This model will eventually diminish, and disintermediate the importance of trusted consultants and IT resellers which account for approximately 30% of the traditional cost of IT.
RNAS “C” models versus “U” models. Classic trays or Utility Bays C models use fully enclosed drives for daily swap media that replaces tape. U Models use raw hard drives for lower cost, yet field replaceable/upgradable drives. They can also be quickly installed into a USB 3 toaster enclosure for fast restores. Since 2004 Highly…
High-Sync Software is used to create replications jobs that can be local (disk to disk, disk to network share) or remote (public cloud providers or Internet protocols like FTP). Not all of the features listed below work to all cloud providers so it’s best to check with your sales rep or technical support. Some of…
High-Sync allows you to completely manage profiles via the command line. Windows You can create High-Sync.exe or High-Sync_Service.exe with the command line parameters shown on this page. High-Sync_Service.exe is only able to run standard jobs, while High-Sync.exe can perform all of the following actions. High-Sync_Service.exe is not as serious and it can run totally invisible,…
The RNAS is a Windows NAS intended as use as dedicated BDRs (Backup and Disaster Recovery), Self Backing NAS, or Cloud-to-Local backup appliances (reverse cloud). Use of Windows IoT for Windows NAS Windows IoT is a version of Windows typically intended to be installed on dedicated appliance or control computers. Windows 10 IoT is a member…
The Graphic below details the differences between Windows Storage Server 2016 Workgroup and Standard Edition. If a user needs Hyper-V functionality the Standard edition should be used. However, if you want to spin up virtual machines using a third party virtualization program such as Virtual Box, that may be done on the Workgroup edition. Notice…
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) takes multiple disk drives and creates arrays that are resilient and highly available by mirroring and striping data across them. It also builds in the means to recover from disk failure using parity data. The different ways that mirroring, striping and parity are used defines the different RAID levels.…
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…
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…
NAS (Network Attached Storage) and DAS (Direct Attached Storage) removable backup devices can have different speeds depending on the data rate of the interface as well as the speed of the device and hard drives being used. The speeds below are backup to a single 2TB or 3TB type SATA drive. FirstRAID and RAIDFrame backup devices can…
Marvell SX7042 (Rosewill brand) – eSATA controller Drivers The drivers for use with the Rosewill RC-218 eSATA controller. Unzip on a new and separate directory before installing.
Marvell 91XX and 92XX PCIE Drivers for Windows Current (2015) drivers Marvell 91XX and 92XX SATA controllers
Marvell 9128 PCI-Express Gen.2 The drivers for use with our current Marvell 9128 PCI-E G2 eSATA controller. Unzip on a new and separate directory before installing.
JMicron JMB363 eSATA Controller Drivers Windows 32-bit and 64-bit drivers for the JMicron JMB363 Controller. JMB36X_WinDrv_R1.17.52_WHQL_eSATA AppName = JMicron JMB36X Driver ProductGUID = 3A1B5D40-41E9-43FA-8C7B-A8667F5586EF CompanyName = JMICRON Technology Corp. CompanyURL = http://www.JMICRON.com [Version] Signature=”$Windows NT$” Provider=%JMICRON% ClassGUID={4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Class=SCSIAdapter DriverVer=10/29/2009, 1.17.52.2 CatalogFile=jraid.cat Unzip to a new and separate directory before installing.
High-Rely Stay Awake Service Version 1.4 This software provides a Windows service that regularly writes a small file to the specified disk(s) to keep the disk from being powered down due to inactivity. This often causes problems with backup software because the disk(s) power off and take to long to spin back up causing the…
High-Rely NetSwap Locator Version 1.2 This software is used to locate NetSwaps connected to a network. It will scan your network and list each NetSwap found with it’s Host Name, Serial #, Software Version, Model, IP Address and a button to access the NetSwap’s web interface. The software can only locate NetSwap’s with software version…
JMicron HW RAID Manager JMicron HW RAID management software. AppName = JMicron HW RAID Manager CompanyName = JMicron Technology Corp. Version = 0.09.69 APPFolderName = JMRAIDManager APPFileName = HWRaidManagerSetup.exe
HRDM2 HRDM2 – the Drive Letter assignment software has gotten even better! Now, HRDM2.5: Installs as a service – no more login required or tray start and stop hassles. New easy to use Administrative interface. HRDM2 Administrator safely and quickly helps you configure for your settings. ALSO can restore SHARES on drives that have been…
High-Rely iSCSI Connector 2.1 iSCSI Connector software for use with the NetSwap, NetSwap Plus, and RAIDFrame Plus running software version 2.x. This software allows hot-swapping and safe removal of NetSwap iSCSI disks. Version 2.1. Remove any previous versions before installation.
Fakeback Determines the best performance typical under read-only conditions. Since all backup systems must WRITE, backup performance will usually be lower than this number (consider at least 1/2). However, new advanced programs may use sophisticated multi-thread programming techniques or optimised drivers for IO and it is possible for these to equal, sometimes exceed FakeBack. Therefore,…
eSATA Driver uninstall reinstall script This file contains a batch file and the devcon utility which you can use to uninstall and reinstall your eSATA card drivers with one command from the command line. Or, you make an icon to run it also. Occasionally for reasons the chip makers can not explain, on certain systems,…
Please note, you will need a monitor and keyboard attached directly to the NetSwap along with a 4GB or larger USB flash drive. You will also need to save a copy of your current Config to restore your settings after the restore is complete. This can be done by selecting Export Configuration from the left-hand…
Key Software replication Features of Netswap Products NAS to NAS and Windows to NAS support. No requirement for proprietary cloud services vendors or monthly fees. There is also no restriction on using approved and compatible Windows Rsync Client to send jobs to Highly Reliable System’s hardware appliances. Uni-directional or Bi-directional Sync jobs supported. Intelligent support…
Highly Reliable Systems manufacturers Network Attached Storage that is purpose built as a destination to backup your data. Not only is our hardware better than consumer grade storage, we focus on easily mirroring or replicating your data to removable drives and the cloud. In addition our tech support is US based and will help you…
How to Backup Amazon S3 with Reverse Cloud
Highly Reliable Systems, based in Reno, Nevada, has added replication to their NetSwap and RAIDFrame removable drive Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Intended for backup, these products provide removable drive and replication in one backup appliance. Replication is block level, incremental, encrypted, and scheduled. The Netswap Plus and RAIDFrame NAS appliances can also mirror between…
You can’t tell by looking at the physical connection whether a machine is using iSCSI or a Windows share. Both iSCSI connections and shared Windows hard drives use an Ethernet connection to attach storage. Since they use the same physical connection and network cable, it can be confusing to understand the difference. It used to…
High-Sync: Batch Script High-Sync is presented as a solution wherein the user can let the application and its jobs run in the background with no interference, or input, by the user. However, there may be an instance where you would like to visually see, and have control, when High-Sync and its jobs are running. This…
Using the High-Sync Remote Service The Remote Service is a useful tool to enable some special features like “partial file updating” also known as block level incremental uploads. This feature is not often used, but the service can speed it up when it is. To be clear there are two “services” in High-Sync, the High-Sync…
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Backblaze B2 – Backup and Mirror Your Data With High-Sync Low Cost, High Performance Cloud Storage with Backblaze B2 Using High-Sync, you can now store and synchronize your data on BackBlaze B2. High-Sync is a generic file synchronization, mirroring and backup tool that provides an extremely wide range of features. It is a lightweight tool…
Using High-Sync for Block-level Backup and Block-level Copying. High-Sync can detect which parts of a larger file have changed, and copy only the changed blocks, rather than the complete file. Copying only the changed blocks can save bandwidth, and time, especially over a slow connection. When copying between local disks, or in a LAN environment,…
Syncing with High-Sync to Google Docs, or Google Drive. Google Drive is an online storage system originally intended for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It is possible to upload any type of file and use it for generic storage. Google Drive can be specified as one side of the synchronization by clicking on the ‘Internet’…
High-Sync can preserve multiple versions of each file in your backup. The recommended method to achieve this is by encoding the timestamp into the filename. The option is called ‘Filename Encoding’ within the synchronizer software. The date and time is added at the end of each file, before the file extension. ‘Filename Encoding’ is also…
To restore files from a backup, start by coping the files you want. Then, the restore operation copies from the right-hand side back to the left-hand side, like normal. The ‘Restore Wizard’ will take you through all of the steps. Additionally, you can manually set up a restore job. Make a copy of the backup…
Case study: User swapped stand alone drive on a High-Rely Netswap 400 (non-raid) and new media with same friendly name showed up after 10 seconds in HTML interface. However, Windows file explorer indicated drive share was inaccessible. After 2 minutes of waiting the user was able to browse the files on the new drive. Please…
The question about how to do a bare metal restore is more of a software issue than a Netswap hardware issue but essentially it’s just a matter of attaching to the Netswap NAS via UNC path during the restore. Here are more details: First, it is important to note that “bare metal restore” from a…
This is a Webinar High-Rely CEO Darren McBride did for ASCII group on the coming of automation and Robotics. ASCII is a consortium of Managed Service and IT resellers. https://vimeo.com/210689462
Darren McBride, CEO of Highly Reliable Systems in Fall of 2016 discusses robots and automation across a broad range of fields from agriculture to food and beverage to IT.
In April 2016 Microsoft brought suit against the U.S. government because agencies can demand access to cloud based files without the knowledge of the owners. The suit argues that that the government is violating the constitution by preventing Microsoft from notifying thousands of customers that their emails and other documents have been accessed. It might…
Solve it with HR’s SpeedSeed(tm). A “Data Clog” can occur when one NAS device is replicating data to a cloud service or another NAS device through the internet, and it is interrupted. This can occur because of flakey internet connections, bandwidth issues, power failures, user error, etc. Often this results in a bulge of growing…
Backups. They are arguably the least glamorous task for any IT team. And yet, they are also one of the most critical. In fact, according to Gartner, 43% of companies go immediately out of business after a “major loss” of computer records. Even worse, only 6% of companies survive longer than two years after a significant data loss.
In reality, most hard disks seldom see operating temperatures below the chill of a server room or beyond the warmth of rack space, and most disks will not commit an URE that crashes a RAID-5 rebuild. While it is agreed that better parity schemes exist, the exception is not the rule. My customer could have retained cold storage data to individual disks via removable drives, with no redundancy at all. In fact, most organizations already use a single removable disk or cloud container for their nightly backup routine. My customer choose a special backup appliance that fits three disks into a single cartridge, further protecting archived data and proving RAID-5 still has business applications.
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That’s the interesting question posed recently by a blogger. If you want to transfer a few hundred gigabytes of data, it’s generally faster to FedEx a hard drive than to send the files over the internet. This isn’t a new idea—it’s often dubbed SneakerNet—and it’s how Google transfers large amounts of data internally. Cisco estimates…
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There are plenty of BDRs, Backup Appliances, NAS boxes, and USB “whatever” to back your data to. But have you run into problems such as quality, speed, or cost? Why not choose a Backup Appliance? There’s no need to put up with buggy backup software, proprietary data centers, or long recovery times. Watch our 11…
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Are desktop class hard drive failures vs enterprise class hard drive failures as expected with the desktop drives being higher? Based on our own subjective and objective experience in the drive industry, we have long suspected that desktop hard drives and enterprise drives fail at roughly the same rate. This goes against the conventional wisdom…
Happy Holidays from High-Rely!! In this newsletter we discuss how frequent seeding saves money in remote backup strategies.
In this newsletter we discuss cost comparison of Cloud vs. Local Backup. Also, we spotlight one of our resellers from San Diego and how Highly Reliable Systems has filled their clients on-site backup needs.
In this months newsletter we release the details of our new Replication & SpeedSeed features in our Network Attached Plus products.
In a continuing trend for cloud based companies, Reputation.com has said: the cloud hacked again. They let users know via email on April 30th, 2013 that it’s data had been breached. The company does not believe credit card data was taken, but the breach is particularly embarrassing because the company helps users manage their online…
One effective way to help small business clients is to perform a backup assessment. Here are a few questions and technician guidelines to help you with the process. Interview the company stakeholders. Ask the following questions What are you doing for backup now? What software are you using? What hardware are you using? How do…
A Non Profit representative writes: “We haven’t backed up since 2009. Backups are done using DVDs and hence, if the volumes are huge, we will need several dvds to back up the materials. Also if the drives run out of space, which they are at the verge, we will have to add more drives, which…
With security concerns of our data ever more important, the question of securely erasing data from hard drives that are no longer being used occasionally comes up. This topic is also known as multiple pass wiping of hard drives. This is a separate question from whether to use whole disk encryption for your backups, or…
We spend a lot of time studying backup to removable disk. Would it surprise you to learn that 3.5 inch hard drives use less power than 2.5 for backup on a per Gigabyte stored basis? 3.5″ disks have around twice the surface area of 2.5″ disks. They also typically have 1.5 to 2 times as many…
OK it is a little out there. By storing data in DNA Harvard Scientists George Church and Sri Kosuri have stored 700TB in 1 gram of material (70 Billion copies of a book). Which makes us wonder how long it will be before there is a High-Rely DNA backup drive. The medium is very dense,…
Come see us at CompTIA Breakaway 2012 in Las Vegas July 30-Aug 2nd . See our new NetSwap Plus Mirroring NAS platforms used to supplement your cloud strategy with an on-site mirrored removable drive. Also on display will be the new BNAS 401C roll your own BDR platform.
With all the talk about backup to the cloud, we wanted to take a moment to discuss the encryption that is always part of that backup strategy. Most encryption methods assume the underlying hardware is good. But given that as many as 3-6% of hard drives fail in any given year, it’s important to ask…
Hard drives are most vulnerable to physical damage when they are powered on and spinning. To help avoid experiencing a premature hard drive failure in your backup media, please use the following procedures when you’re swapping your media: If using High Rely Classic media: Turn key off, wait 15 seconds, then remove media. If using…
One of the most common problems we hear is that a full backup takes longer than one night to complete (The slow backup problem). Here at Highly Reliable Systems, we’ve tested a variety of backup software and have found that imaging based products (as opposed to file based) provide the best backup performance. A product…
Through the course of a long career I have worked with many types of tape backup appliances, and consider myself a reasonably knowledgeable user of these systems. I have come to believe that tape does not belong in any serious backup strategy if any other data storage alternative can be found. Admittedly, in some cases the cost of tape per Gigabyte of storage can’t be beat, but the cost savings are often artificial when you consider the massive amount of human effort wasted struggling with a tape backup or restore that doesn’t work.