Backup and Recovery
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ReadyNAS for Home RAIDiator 5.3
Back Up Data Stored on a Network-Attached Device
You can use Dashboard to create jobs to back up data that resides primarily on a
network-attached device to your ReadyNAS device.
The following figure illustrates the backup process described in this section.
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Figure 11. Backing up data from a laptop computer to a ReadyNAS system
1. Laptop computer serving as backup source
2. ReadyNAS system serving as backup destination
3. Backup process
By default, all backup jobs are scheduled to automatically run every day. You can edit these
settings after you create each backup job. For more information, see
Edit a Backup Job
on
page
96.
Before trusting your backup job to a schedule, it is a good practice to manually perform the
backup to make sure that access to the remote backup source or destination is granted, and
that the backup job can be done within the backup frequency you selected. You can do this
after you create each backup job. For more information, see
Manually Start a Backup Job
on
page
98.
Backup and recovery jobs using Time Machine require different procedures. For more
information, see
Time Machine
on page
100.
