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A Look at ioSafe and Synology: Two Storage Solutions for Protecting Data From Any Disaster
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But if one did enter something prior to your company "fixing" it, does our entry still count?
IOSafe also makes products that are basically a complete Synology NAS built into one of their fire resistant, waterproof enclosures. The approach described here (a NAS with a separate durable enclosure as a backup) is an interesting one, though, provided that there's enough room on the IOSafe to hold what you want to protect.
Though unless the thieves think it's a sort of safe, they are less likely to take a 15 pound external HDD with them, there prefer a higher value to weight ratio.
But if one did enter something prior to your company "fixing" it, does our entry still count?
If you wrote something in the space and pressed enter, then yes, it counts. It should tell you on the widget whether you've done that entry. If it says you have, it counts.
So, you are putting them at least into a low orbit around Earth.Yeah, let's launch a few hard drives into the space in case Earth is attacked by monsters.
I am sticking with the cloud services
I feel like "backup everything" is just nonsense. When I buy a new computer, I'm not going to copy everything over to it. I'll move the few files I need over, download a few applications, and be good to go.
If I lose all the pictures, movies, and music, so what? It's not a big deal.
Just stick your important files in Dropbox (or whatever cloud storage solution you use). Periodically backup everything from Dropbox onto a keydrive (I keep mine on my keychain.) Bam. You've got a copy on each Dropbox synced device, plus you have a remote copy on Dropbox's servers, plus you have a copy on your person at all times (I assume most people always have their keys with them like me...)
It's not everything, but it's the important stuff.
If I lose all the pictures, movies, and music, so what? It's not a big deal.
Just stick your important files in Dropbox (or whatever cloud storage solution you use). Periodically backup everything from Dropbox onto a keydrive (I keep mine on my keychain.) Bam. You've got a copy on each Dropbox synced device, plus you have a remote copy on Dropbox's servers, plus you have a copy on your person at all times (I assume most people always have their keys with them like me...)
It's not everything, but it's the important stuff.
Sinology requires Java
Unfortunately, managing a Synology NAS requires Java. And since it's done using a web browser, that means that you must have Java enabled in the browser.
I would much rather not have Java, and not have it enabled. But there's no choice, it seems. Maybe I could disable it in all browsers except one.
Unfortunately, managing a Synology NAS requires Java. And since it's done using a web browser, that means that you must have Java enabled in the browser.
I would much rather not have Java, and not have it enabled. But there's no choice, it seems. Maybe I could disable it in all browsers except one.
Two Time Capsules in two different houses (and cities). I felt a lot more comfortable after we added the second. A backup is no good if they steal the laptop and the TC.
I'm in the same boat and this is so very true. Honestly I would say <30% have a backup with the number probably closer to 15-20% if not less.
This is completely false.
I don't have a single bit of Java installed on my Mac, PC, or Linux box, and can manage my DS215j without any problems. Browsers I've used have been Safari, Firefox, and Opera.
BL.
It used to be required. The file browser on their web manager was Java based. It's not anymore though. The past few versions in the past year and a half or so have been a dream to work with.
I've got...
Time Capsule
Carbonite
Dropbox
Didn't have anything a long time ago and learned my lesson!
Time Capsule
Carbonite
Dropbox
Didn't have anything a long time ago and learned my lesson!
That is probably just a USB WiFi adapter like these:
http://store.bearextender.com/blogs...igh-speed-802-11ac-usb-wi-fi-adapter-for-macs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G1728205
Which would then make sense, as I picked up my DS215j in late May/early June of 2014.
Back on topic, the only concern I have with BeyondCloud is that while you're great for backups, you're buying another unit to cover the BeyondCloud issue of being a single point of failure. You're dealing with a single drive in that model (which is a preconfigured DS115j), without any redundancy in your backups outside of copying it to the ioSafe.
Coming from a Sysadmin/DBA world, you are only secure in your backups as your latest RESTORE, so if you lose your single drive, you're purchasing a new one immediately and restoring from the ioSafe or wherever your last backup is located and hoping it restores successfully. At least with BeyondCloud Mirrored, you'd have the redundancy of RAID to help. Yes, you'd be buying another drive to replace the one that crashed, but at least you're dealing with an automatic rebuild of RAID instead of an entire restore.
I'll still enter the contest for it, but it appears my DS215j is beefier than this. Now.. if I can only figure out how to jump from 3TB RAID1 to 4 or 6TB.. which I think I have an idea..
Off to the lab!
BL.
After Synology's poor handling of the Synolock ransomware, I will never get another Synology product. I lost so much data and my NAS is still a brick.
You do realize that the Synolock issue was taken care of by a patch that you didn't apply, right? Since it was fixed, you left your NAS vulnerable. You'd only have yourself to blame for that.
BL.
synology? yeah, their cloudstation is one of the worst piece of software i have ever ran in my mac. it constantly put my cpu 100%. i relinked twice without any improvement. wrote to synology, saying my cpu running at 100+% constantly.
thats what i got:
Thank you for contacting Synology Support.
The behaviour you have described is expected as the way that Cloud Station works is that it will always keep an active connection to check that there are no changes made on the target location. It is designed this way so if there are any changes made on the target device or on the Synology device, these will be synchronised immediately instead of using a delay.
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yet i run dropbox, skyrive and none of them gives any trouble. only the glorified cloudstation for which i bought the NAS. good luck to the person who receives it in the giveaway
/end of rant
thats what i got:
Thank you for contacting Synology Support.
The behaviour you have described is expected as the way that Cloud Station works is that it will always keep an active connection to check that there are no changes made on the target location. It is designed this way so if there are any changes made on the target device or on the Synology device, these will be synchronised immediately instead of using a delay.
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yet i run dropbox, skyrive and none of them gives any trouble. only the glorified cloudstation for which i bought the NAS. good luck to the person who receives it in the giveaway
/end of rant
No, I don't have myself to blame. I wasn't notified of an issue or a patch. I was away from my NAS for about 3 months and during that time I lost remote access to my files. Synology left my NAS vulnerable as that vulnerability should have never existed in the first place.
Everyone received this back in august 2014, from Synology:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/security/SynoLocker
This from November 13, 2013:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/security/hotfix_dsm_4_2_3243
https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/security/hotfix_dsm_4_0_2259
The earliest 4.3 update that addressed Synolocker came out on 4 February 2014:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/security/hotfix_dsm_4_3_3827
Synolocker started to occur between May and August 2014, so people can't say they weren't properly warned on it, when patches for 3 different versions of the software were available for MONTHS.
BL.
I think it's a really bad idea to talk people out of cloud back-ups. Those 'someones' you say we'd be relying on, are not just anybody. They are people who do back-ups for a living. That makes them far more reliable than the average home user muddling about with external drives, rsync and low to moderate motivation. Sure it feels better being in control, like driving a car feels safer than being flown in a plane, but if there were statistics I bet they'd show than it isn't.
I hope you understand that's not how software works. Furthermore, you always have the option to run your NAS offline (for local backups only) and never having to worry about vulnerabilities or hackers. If you connect a device of any kind to the internet, you assume the risk of ransomware, malware, rootkits, etc. affecting your device(s).
it depends on the use case, but i think you are right. obviously for work we have network and failover backups accross multiple data centers. for home I have the local time capsule for all my devices. In addition i use icloud to store all my pictures, music, and documents using the 200 gig plan. the os and apps do not need to be backed up.
If i had a ton of videos that could add up quickly, but for now, having a local and an offsite back up give me peace of mind (even though I know that versioning is only available locally and the offsite is last version only).
Well, I'm currently backing up about 1TB to crash plan, after having issues with backblaze. Obviously the initial sync takes forever (about a month), but after that it's fine.
Most (all?) backup places let you password protect your backup set. It's unclear how much protection that provides, but both BB and CP say they can't recover your files if you lose your backup password, so that's a good sign.
Most (all?) backup places let you password protect your backup set. It's unclear how much protection that provides, but both BB and CP say they can't recover your files if you lose your backup password, so that's a good sign.
I don't think you understand how floods can work. Your tupperware box floats up and out of your basement, carried downstream to be ultimately buried in tons of mud, not to be seen for eighty years. Big earthquake? If it's big enough, you may not even get back into your apartment OR basement because the building's been red-tagged.