Looking for a good NAS for business

[Zratch]

Yeah it looked really good, like you've said great protections, nas looks really solid, price was good, but the sad thing is, does not sell outside US... Unless someone here would be it for me then sell it to me, won't be much use for me.

Anyway, will still need to get this approved by management, but will get a couple of quotes from my rep for synology, I really liked te Asus one (Asus as-606t), and see if he can get me an IOsafe, or get two asus or synology, one in the main branch, one in another hub and run mirror backups...

So much things to think about, I'm gonna get to sleep and see with management during the week, if I remember correctly, appointment's on thursday.

Thank you again

 

[MotzTech]

What do you use as a backup system ? For now I am using a robocopy batch file to mirror the drive and relying on tape backups for restoration, but since there won't be tapes on the NAS, I'm not sure how I could follow.

Reminder : I'm in a business and a lot of documents get added/deleted everyday and sometime I need to get them back from a couple of days /weeks. If someone has any how I could script this or if there is a software that would keep image on my nas for let's say 30days them remove it, would be much appreciated.

I use shadowprotect for image backups, but without actually getting into the nitty gritty of your network I'm not sure if that would be the best option for you.

 

[ProTech-MN]

Have you looked at the IOsafe NAS devices. Fire proof, water proof, and can be bolted to the floor. The offer RAID setup and on top of that they come with a data garentee so if the device fails they will pay for 50,000 to 100,000 dollars worth of data recovery. Good pricing too. Check out thier website you can build the one you want and it will give you pricing options.

Tried out the IOSafe devices a while back at 3 different clients - they all died within 12-18 months... won't touch 'em again.

-Randy

 

[Zratch]

Thank you everyone for you feedbacks, but the head office refused our purchase proposal for a NAS, so we will stay with our current configuration, which is backup will be either done on a server who's tapes are currently full, or on the head office server, that we upload and download to at 40kb/s...

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Oh man..that stinks. Nothing like having to support computers that you know are barely being backed up in any reasonable fashion.

It will take a disaster to strike....until the bean counters see how important backup is...and more specifically..speed of restoration. A lot of them don't know it can be days...DAYS...until things are restored, when you use the old fashioned approach.

 

[Zratch]

Oh man..that stinks. Nothing like having to support computers that you know are barely being backed up in any reasonable fashion.

It will take a disaster to strike....until the bean counters see how important backup is...and more specifically..speed of restoration. A lot of them don't know it can be days...DAYS...until things are restored, when you use the old fashioned approach.

One of the big boss laptop got stolen over the Christmas holidays... no backups he was in favor of the NAS, but we are in Quebec and head office is in Ontario, they have their ways of doing stuff, we have ours. I still don't know how I'll figure this one out, might end up buying more tapes for my powervault library and get over it... They'll get tired eventually of us taking all their spaces in the head office server if they don't want me to buy more tapes... which would be ridiculous.

Anyway, might pick up a smaller unit for my house, stream media instead of powering up my main pc just to stream to my HTPC. At least I learned about those devices.

Thanks again everyone

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Probably going to get the RS2212+ RP model with a buncha WD RE4 HDDs in there for our office....our current old NAS is dying (about 8 years old)

http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=RS2212+&lang=usb

 

[Zratch]

I hate you so much , I want that for where I work... would resolved my backup problem for the next 100 years. Yeah, not that much pc users, mostly citrix. But all the big bosses are PC...