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Backup and Recovery
If your data is important enough to store, it is important enough to back up. Data can be lost due to a number
of events, including natural disaster (for example, fire or flood), theft, improper data deletion, and hard drive
failure. If you regularly back up your data, you can recover your data if any of these situations occur.
Businesses sometimes use backup data to comply with data retention regulations and to archive information
before making major changes to their IT environments, such as batch updates to databases. At home and in
business settings, you should back up important data that might be lost due to a natural disaster or the loss
of a device that stores data.
This chapter includes the following sections:
•Back Up or Restore System Configuration
•Basic Data Backup and Recovery Concepts
•Manage Backup and Recovery Jobs
•Configure the Backup Button
•Back Up Windows Computers and Mac Computers to ReadyNAS
•File Synchronization Across Computers
•Work on Files Across Windows Computers and Mac Computers Using ReadyNAS
•Time Machine
•ReadyNAS Vault
•Dropbox
•ReadyNAS Replicate
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