Netgear Business Edition User Manual

4-8

Securing Your Data

You can view the backup log while the job is in progress or after it has finished.

The log format might differ depending on the backup source and destination type that was 
selected, but you can see when the job was started and finished, and whether it was completed 
successfully or with errors.

To edit a backup job, you can either click the 3-digit job number button in the Backup Jobs screen, 
or you can click the Edit Backup Job link while viewing that job log. You can then make 
appropriate changes or adjustments to the job.

The Volume screen allows you to schedule and take snapshots. You can visualize a snapshot as a 
frozen image of a volume at the time you take the snapshot. Snapshots are typically used for 
backups, during which time the original volume can continue to operate normally. As primary 
storage becomes larger, offline backups tend to become increasingly difficult as backup time 
increases beyond offline hours. Snapshots allow backups to occur without the need to take your 
systems offline.

Snapshots also can be used as temporary backups. For example, if a file on the NAS device 
becomes infected with a virus, the uninfected file can be restored from a prior snapshot taken 
before the attack.