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Protecting Your Data

16.1 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.

16.2 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 115 Overview of Protection Methods

SITUATION

ACTION

Unexpected NSA behavior after

Back up the NSA configuration file before you

configuration changes

make major configuration changes.

 

 

Need to transfer data from your

Use the Memeo Autobackup program.

computer to the NSA after volume(s)

 

have been created

 

 

 

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

Network down

hard 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 169 for more information on RAID.

 

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