[sdw2003] How to backup a Buffalo NAS ???

[Joe Lagreca]

This has been a problem that has plagued me for a while.  I have a
Infrant (now Netgear) ReadyNAS.

Dante:  "Mozy offers virtually unlimited Storage for $5 monthly, if
you're doing only file backups."

Unfortunately this is NOT the case with Mozy.  In order to backup
mapped drives, you have to be running Mozy Pro, which has a per
machine license and then a per GB charge.  The home use/unlimited
backup for $5/month will NOT let you back up mapped drives.

I'm unsure if carbonite suffers from this same limitation.

I have been using CrashPlan (www.crashplan.com) which will not only do
local but online backups.  Its great because like mozy and carbonite,
they offer online storage, but you can also backup to other crashplan
users.  So this is potentially a service that you can provide to your
customers.

Currently I run all macs at my office, which have no problem backing
up mapped drives.  There was a limitation of windows machines not
being able to, but that may have been solved by now.

So I have a local backup from my NAS to a single hard drive.  I also
have an offsite backup that sends all my data to the east coast.  Yes,
its a little drastic and my data is not that important, but I had a
willing test subject to run crashplan back there and let me backup to
him.

If someone has a better solution I'm very curious to hear about it.

Joe LaGreca
Founder & Owner, BIG Net Online
619-393-1733 x200 Office
619-318-3246 Cell
www.BIGnetOnline.com



On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dante at baltigroup.com> wrote:
> Given it's a shared drive, you can install either Mozy
> Or Carbonite in any of the workstations and have that
> Computer send it offsite. We have this setup for a couple
> Customers with similar network setup and it works pretty
> Well, including Macs. Mozy offers virtually unlimited
> Storage for $5 monthly, if you're doing only file backups.
> Carbonite is a bit more expensive.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dante
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com]
> On Behalf Of TJ Galati
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:16 AM
> To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
> Subject: RE: [sdw2003] How to backup a Buffalo NAS ???
>
> I don't have any provider yet, thus, the pending questions.  Who has
> suggestions on a comprehensive solution?
>
> Example:  "I know backup company X provides....."
>
> Thanx much.
>
> TJ Galati
> CIO, CRES
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com]
> On Behalf Of Tracy Reed
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:47 AM
> To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
> Subject: Re: [sdw2003] How to backup a Buffalo NAS ???
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:11:33AM -0800, TJ Galati spake thusly:
>> Im looking to set up an online backup solution to send data from an
> NAS
>> to an online provider.
>>
>> The goal is to get data offsite.  Its just a small workgroup with a
>> buffalo terrastation RAID 1 as the file server.
>
> What sort of file transfer does the "online provider" support? The
> Buffalo is just a Linux box IIRC. I've never gotten inside one but if
> it has a native local filesystem (exporting the data via NFS or CIFS)
> then you could use rsync, scp, s3sync, duplicity, or any number of
> methods to get the data to your provider depending on what transfer
> methods they support.
>
>> I want to go from NAS to online service.
>
> Direct from NAS with the NAS being a Linux device is surely going to
> involve something along the lines of what I mention above.
>
> --
> Tracy Reed
> http://tracyreed.org
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