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NSA320 User’s Guide
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CHAPTER 16
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 7.6.3
on page 169 for more information on RAID.
Table 115 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.