8. Backup

With the NAS you'll receive one user license for the client backup software. If you want to back up more machines (up to a total of eight), you'll need to purchase additional licenses at around $50 each. This is an expensive approach to backup, considering that competing products like the Infrant ReadyNASes include built-in free schedulable networked backup capability. The four images below show the key steps in configuring the backup client software.

First, the software shows all the systems available to the NAS for backup.

Then select the local partitions that should be copied to the NAS during backup.