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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: arf1410 on March 21, 2010, 12:57:19 PM
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I have just purchased the DNS-323, and 2 Seagate 1.5 TB drives (89.99 each at frys). My original thought was was to setup in RAID1 (I am a newbe here), which I think just instantly mirrors one drive to the next? This way, if one drive has a physical failure, I am protected? However, can a drive get a virus which is mirrored to mess up both drives? What about if I do something stupid? then it will instantly happen to the other drive? Would I be better off copying from Drive 1 to Drive 2 every night, or every couple of days? Is there some way to tell the 323 to do this automatically? I looked at the owners manual, but wasn't as detailed as I would like. I would think a file by file copy, rather than a compressed bunch would be best?
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You instincts are sound, RAID of any level is NOT backup!
Truthfully, I'd install that second drive in your computer and do the backups to a different physical box. That way a power supply glitch or other disaster happening to the NAS doesn't affect both copies of the data.