Protecting your data, 1 overview, 2 protection methods – ZyXEL Communications NSA210 User Manual

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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.

The following sections describe these methods in more detail. See

Section 7.5.2

on page 154

for more information on RAID.

Table 109 Overview of Protection Methods

SITUATION

ACTION

Unexpected NSA behavior after
configuration changes

Back up the NSA configuration file before you
make major configuration changes.

Need to transfer data from your
computer to the NSA after volume(s)
have been created

Use the Memeo Autobackup program.

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

Network down

Natural disaster such as a fire or
earthquake occurs where your NSA is
located

Back up data to another NSA or external USB
hard drive.

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