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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: pingjockey on December 11, 2008, 08:02:13 AM
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I bought this unit a long time ago (probably close to the initial release date here in the US) and I am happy with it so far. I lacks quite a few features from larger units but it does what I need it do right now.
However, my wife and I are working from home more and more now a days and I would like to set up a reasonable back-up plan. Does anyone have anything remotely like this planned with this particular unit or should I just update to a larger unit like the 343 or something.
Thanks
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I just have a external HHD and case attached to my pc and use allway sync to do a monthly one way sync.
I am hoping that the new firmware allows the USB port to be used as a external HDD port and that the "downloads" section in the web interface becomes "downloads and uploads", that way it can be done all from the unit
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I use the exactly same methodology of backing up my files as Sumdumphuc does, my only deviation is that I run nightly backups.
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I choose monthly backups rather than nightly because if there is any corruption in my files I have a month (or less) to fix it and not have my backup corrupt.
I do also have a portable passport that is synced to most of the DNS-323 as well (not intended as a backup, just so I have my files at all times with me), This means I have my files on 4 HDD's at any one time.
my DNS is in Raid mode.
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I choose monthly backups rather than nightly because if there is any corruption in my files I have a month (or less) to fix it and not have my backup corrupt.
The downside to this is that you run the risk of loosing as much as a month's worth of work - although with RAID and a total of four copies that should be relatively small - the danger I would see there is a failure to keep it all in sync.
The backup interval as well as the retention period (how long a particular backup is kept) should be chosen based on how much work you stand to lose, as well as the cost of perhaps recreating the data.
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I have thought about the length in between backups as far as lost data is concerned, The chance of losing all 3 other copies is very low and though 1 month could well be alot of work (depending on the month) it is still better losing 1 month than all of my files.
Keeping all 4 HDD synced is very easy.
2 are already in RAID.
1 is on auto monthly backup
the other portable passport has the Geek.menu (http://geek-menu.sourceforge.net/) in it and has allway sync and go (http://allwaysync.com/) in it as well, so everytime I connect and disconnect to the network I press sync.
Very easy to keep all synced
[Edit] When I travel I sync the portable passport via ftp, so if I lose the portable passport I still have my files