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Protecting Your Data

18.1 Overview

This chapter compares the different ways of protecting data on the NSA and explains how to use backup management software included on the CD.

18.2 Protection Methods

There are a variety of ways to protect your data on the NSA. Below is a summary table of what can be done in each situation.

Table 123 Overview of Protection Methods

SITUATIONACTION

Unexpected NSA behavior after configuration

Back up the NSA configuration file before you make

changes

major configuration changes.

 

 

Need to transfer data from your computer to the

Backup your data to a computer or other storage

NSA after volume(s) have been created

devices.

 

 

Data infected by virus

Use anti-virus software on your computer to scan files

 

before saving them onto the NSA. Although this may be

 

slow so you may want to schedule it to occur while no

 

one is using the NSA.

 

Use a firewall with anti-virus capability on your network.

 

 

Hard drive malfunction.

Use RAID.

 

 

NSA malfunction

Back up data to another NSA or external USB hard

Network down

drive.

 

Natural disaster such as a fire or earthquake occurs

 

where your NSA is located

 

 

 

The following sections describe these methods in more detail. See Section 7.6.3 on page 161 for more information on RAID.

18.3 Configuration File Backup and Restoration

Use the Maintenance > Configuration menus to create a file of your NSA configurations such as passwords, shares and volumes created, network settings and so on. If you’re going to do some major configuration changes, then it is advisable to create a configuration backup file. If things go wrong after you make the configuration changes, you can always go back to the previous configuration by restoring an earlier configuration file.

 

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