11-Oct-2015, 20:00
(11-Oct-2015, 19:54)thumb5 Wrote:(11-Oct-2015, 19:38)Womaz Wrote: At present I have two bays and one acts as a back up but my dealer set everyhing up 3 year ago so I just take his word for it.
A bit off-topic -again, sorry - and I don't want to worry you unduly, but I couldn't let it lie...
Having a two-bay NAS doesn't give you a back-up. There are many ways that you could lose data off both disks in the NAS at the same time. I would really recommend you set up an independent, separate back-up scheme as soon as you can, to be safe. This could be most easily done by manually copying the contents of the NAS now and again onto a portable external drive like the WD My Passport (as Bob Ryan suggested). Alternatively it's quite likely your NAS software has some built-in way to automate copying its contents to an external drive. Either way, make sure you store the external drive somewhere away from the NAS, preferably in a different building.
Actually I would like to get rid of my NAS if I go down the other route. I presume I could do this and then get a WD My Passport and do back ups every week or so.
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