Protection Levels

Snapshot Replica can back up your snapshots to another storage pool on the local NAS, or to a remote NAS. These different backup configurations provide different levels of data protection.

Protects Against	Snapshots only	Snapshots + Local Snapshot Replica	Snapshots + Remote Snapshot Replica
Accidental modification or deletion of files	✓	✓	✓
Ransomware	✓	✓	✓
RAID Group Failure Member disks fail Member disks are removed from the NAS		✓	✓
Storage Pool Failure One or more RAID groups in the pool fail Pool is deleted		✓	✓
NAS Hardware Failure NAS cannot power on QTS encounters an error and cannot start NAS is stolen			✓