Lacie backup assistant review windows#
Use a local or RDP connection and you can access the standard Windows Backup utility and schedule tasks to secure data from the appliance to a network location. Either method gives access to local backup and restore tools, the Windows firewall, basic diagnostics and shutdown or restart options.īackup choices are extensive, as from the web interface you can pick a volume and secure all its contents, or select folders to a USB storage device or backup the latter to the appliance’s storage.
Three modes of administration are supported as you can place a monitor, mouse and keyboard on the appliance or RDP to it.
Lacie backup assistant review plus#
Client support is good as you have Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac users on the list, plus the appliance offers FTP services and supports Apple’s Time Machine backup feature. Tabs are provided for the remaining features, where you can plump for workgroup mode or AD authentication, create users and groups, add shares, define access restrictions and view hardware status. Your next stop is the appliance’s web interface, which offers a quick start wizard for creating new public shares. LaCie’s Network Assistant installs as a background task accessible from the System Tray, where it spots the Ethernet Disk as soon as it has loaded and provides a basic screen for selecting DHCP or a fixed IP address and accessing shares for mapping. If one drive fails you lose everything, and the chassis can’t be opened without invalidating the warranty. The review model has 2TB of storage provided by a pair of 1TB Hitachi SATA drives, but RAID is not an option.
This in turn reduces hardware demands, and the appliance employs a simple 1GHz VIA processor backed up with a modest 256MB of DDR memory – 64MB of which is shared with the embedded graphics adapter.
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