Backup and Recovery
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ReadyNAS for Home RAIDiator 5.3
Note:
RAID configuration of disks is not a substitute for backing up data.
RAID configuration protects you only from data loss if a disk fails.
For more information about the protection that RAID configuration
offers, see
RAID
on page
19.
A
backup source
is the place that data that is being backed up is primarily stored. A
backup
destination
is the place where the backed-up data is stored. If you need to recover your data,
the backup target becomes the recovery job source.
A
secure cloud backup
lets you use online backup and recovery tools to save data over the
Internet to a remote location, and restore the data if needed.
Your ReadyNAS system can manage backup and recovery for many devices on your
network, and it also supports the ReadyNAS Vault secure cloud backup.
Back Up Your ReadyNAS System with Vault
With ReadyNAS Vault, your ReadyNAS data can be backed up securely to a remote secure
data center. Your data is encrypted before it is sent over the Internet. Backup administration
is over a 128-bit SSL connection, the same method that banks and financial institutions use.
The following figure shows how to back up data that is stored on your ReadyNAS system to
the cloud, and how to return that data to your ReadyNAS with a restore process.
ReadyNAS
Vault
Back up data to the cloud.
Restore from the cloud.
Figure 7. Using a ReadyNAS system to back up and recover data stored on a cloud