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<\/p>\n\u00a0Author: Joseph Moran
\nReview Date: 7\/3\/2008<\/i><\/p>\n
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You probably don’t need anyone to tell you how important it is to frequently backup business data, but if those backups are stored only at the office, you’re still rolling the dice. One need only look at recent news stories about fires, floods and tornados to get a sense of the potential risks involved. Unless a backup copy is stored safely off premises, you’re still vulnerable to catastrophic data loss.<\/p>\n
One obvious way to address this risk is to take backups off site. Another is to back up to an offsite server, which is where the Datto Backup 100 comes in. This\u00a0NAS<\/a>\u00a0device’s remote backup feature automatically duplicates its data to an online storage server, ensuring a redundant copy is always stored safely out of harm’s way.<\/p>\n The Datto Backup, which is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, is a compact device, barely larger than the single hard disk it contains. The two available models, 100 and 500, provide either 100 GB or 500 GB of storage capacity for $399 and $599, respectively. They connect to your network via 10\/100 Ethernet (though Gigabit Ethernet is more the norm these days).<\/p>\n Our evaluation unit was the 100 GB model, and setting it up was a quick and easy affair. After plugging it into the network and power (there’s no on\/off switch), we headed to Datto’s Web site to create an account and register the unit. Upon doing so we were able to verify connectivity to our device, which had automatically obtained an IP address on our local network via\u00a0DHCP<\/a>. The Datto Backup was able communicate with the company’s servers through our broadband router’s NAT firewall without any configuration needed on either device.<\/p>\n After a link to the Datto Backup is established, a setup wizard walks through basic configuration parameters, including the automatic creation of a 256-bit\u00a0AES<\/a>\u00a0encryption key used to safeguard data while en route to Datto’s servers and subsequwntly stored there. Your upstream connection to the Internet is also polled to determine how much bandwidth is available for remote backup &3151 in our case it was around 1 Mbps, of which the Datto Backup reserved the right to use bit more than half, or 610 Kbps.<\/p>\n After completing the initial configuration, you can log directly into the Datto Backup through a browser to perform administrative tasks, including creating shared folders and user accounts. Helpfully, you don’t need to know the Datto Backup’s IP address on your network because the URL device.dattobackup.com always serves as a convenient path to the device.<\/p>\nSpecifications and Initial Set Up<\/h4>\n
Administration<\/h4>\n