Protecting Your Data; Chapter 16 Protecting Your Data; Overview; Protection Methods - ZyXEL Communications NSA221 User Manual

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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.
Table 114 Overview of Protection Methods
SITUATION
Unexpected NSA behavior after
configuration changes
Need to transfer data from your
computer to the NSA after volume(s)
have been created
Data infected by virus
Hard drive malfunction.
NSA malfunction
Network down
Natural disaster such as a fire or
earthquake occurs where your NSA is
located
The following sections describe these methods in more detail. See
on page 157
NSA221 User's Guide

Protecting Your Data

for more information on RAID.
ACTION
Back up the NSA configuration file before you
make major configuration changes.
Use the Memeo Autobackup program.
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.
Use RAID.
Back up data to another NSA or external USB
hard drive.
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