Netgear ReadyNAS 102 User Manual

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Backup and Recovery
If your data is important enough to store, it is important enough to back up. Data can be lost due 
to a number of events, including natural disaster (for example, fire or flood), theft, improper data 
deletion, and hard drive failure. If you regularly back up your data, you can recover your data if 
any of these situations occur.
Businesses sometimes use backup data to comply with data retention regulations and to archive 
information before making major changes to their IT environments, such as batch updates to 
databases. At home and in business settings, you should back up important data that might be 
lost due to a natural disaster or the loss of a device that stores data.
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