What You Can Do In The Protect Screens; What You Need To Know About Protection Methods - ZyXEL Communications NSA-2401 User Manual

Chapter 9 Protect Screens

9.1.1 What You Can Do in the Protect Screens

• Use the Backup screens
by archive backup job.
• Use the Restore screens
• Use the Snapshot screens
• Use the Backup Software screen
Manager license keys.

9.1.2 What You Need to Know About Protection Methods

Configuration File Backup and Restoration
Use the Maintenance > Configuration menus to create a file of your NSA configurations
such as passwords, shares and volumes created, network settings and so on. If you're going to
do some major configuration changes, then it is advisable to create a configuration backup file.
If things go wrong after you make the configuration changes, you can always go back to the
previous configuration by restoring an earlier configuration file.
If you forgot the NSA password, then reset the device to go back to the factory default
configuration.
Configuration File Backup and Restoration does not affect disk arrays,
volumes, or data (your files and folders) on the NSA.
Genie Backup Manager
Use the Genie Backup Manager to transfer data from your computer to the NSA. You could
use Genie Backup Manager to back up from one NSA to another NSA but it's recommended
you use the NSA Protect > Backup to do this (see
would be faster.
The Genie Backup program uses the same network port as the NDU to
discover the NSA. To avoid a port conflict, do not run the Genie Backup
Manager at the same time as the NDU.
Snapshots
A snapshot is a record of changes to an internal volume at a particular moment in time. As it
only records changes to files made in a volume, it's faster and takes up less space than a
backup. Snapshots are good for data that changes often and needs to have high availability. If
files within a volume become infected or corrupted, you can revert files back to their state at a
snapshot.
You create snapshots of a complete volume, not a single file or folder within a volume.
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(Section 9.2 on page 198) to back up data and restore backup files
(Section 9.3 on page 210) to restore by backup files.
(Section 9.4 on page 213) to create and manage snapshot jobs.
(Section 9.5 on page
Section 9.2 on page
218) to locate the Genie Backup
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