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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

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Ransomware

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RAID Group Failure

  • Member disks fail

  • Member disks are removed from the NAS

 

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Storage Pool Failure
  • One or more RAID groups in the pool fail

  • Pool is deleted

 

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NAS Hardware Failure

  • NAS cannot power on

  • QuTS hero encounters an error and cannot start

  • NAS is stolen

   

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