Anyone using Netgear ReadySHARE Vault

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I have a Netgear R6000 router and I’m looking for a tertiary backup solution for my Windows 10 PC. I came across Netgear ReadySHARE Vault. It doesn’t sound half-bad (sweeps your system on regular intervals looking for files to back-up and backs them up to a USB3 HD attached to the router). Is anyone using it? Comments?

Rob

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Nowadays a primary function of a backup solution is: does it protect you against ransomware encrypting those files which are online?
On the face of it, the USB 3 drive seems to be permanently online – so the files thereon would be susceptible to encryption…

BATcher

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Nowadays a primary function of a backup solution is: does it protect you against ransomware encrypting those files which are online?
On the face of it, the USB 3 drive seems to be permanently online – so the files thereon would be susceptible to encryption…

BATcher: Point taken. Right now, I’m doing two backups (Mozy Pro to the “cloud” and NovaBACKUP to a local USB3 disk). Mozy backs up 8 times a day and NovaBACKUP runs overnight. I just liked the notion of an almost-real-time backup that Netgear provides. I fully realize that local disks are targets for ransomware but I think I’m being as careful as humanly possible including running Malwarebytes version 3 product (paid-for) which contains an anti-ransom feature. And yes, no software can protect a stupid person from doing stupid things. I’m more concerned about hardware failures and “oops” moments.

I guess some of it comes from working with IBM mainframes for 43 years and having lived through more than one installment of “You never know if a backup is good until you need to use it to restore something”.

Rob

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Being “an old mainframe guy” myself, my motto always was:
“If it moves, back it up.
And if it doesn’t move, back it up anyway!”

If you feel your backup régime does what you want, who shall gainsay you?

BATcher

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My favorite (though I didn’t think so at the time) “backup” story was from 1976; working in a shop with an IBM 370/145 running OS/VS1. We were moving some disks around one night including one that had the UCC1 (tape management) catalog. We backed up everything we were going to move to tape and then did “something” (I can’t remember what but it seemed logical at the time); then IPLled with the notion that we would restore the UCC1 catalog after the system came back up to finish the other restores. We submitted the restore job and UCC1 complained that the tape catalog was missing so it couldn’t mount the restore tape. It wasn’t “missing”; we were holding it in our hands on a reel of tape. Pretty soon the sun started to come up and we were panicking. We needed to shut down UCC1 so it would allow us to mount the tape but couldn’t figure out how to do it. My manager remembered the name of a UCC1 tech who lived somewhere in the Dallas area so we called Directory Assistance and asked for the phone number of everyone with that name who lived near Dallas. As stupid as this all sounds (and I’m not making any of it up), we got the name of the UCC1 tech who told us the undocumented method of shutting down UCC1…which we did. Catalog was restored and everything was back up and running just in time for the cafeteria to open for coffee. Talk about dumb luck. I hope I learned something! 🙂

Rob

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