Netgear EDA 500 User Manual

Figure 13. Recovering data from a ReadyNAS system to a laptop computer

If you store backed-up data on another device on the network, such as a USB drive, you can create a
recovery job to restore backed-up data to your ReadyNAS system.

Figure 14. Restoring data from a USB drive to a ReadyNAS system

The ReadyNAS system treats recovery jobs like backup jobs. You use the Backup screen to create a
recovery job. In a recovery job, you reverse the source and destination that you used when you backed
up the data. The recovery source is the backup destination and the recovery destination is the backup
source.

A secure cloud backup lets you use online backup and recovery tools, such as ReadyNAS Vault, to save
data over the Internet to a remote location and restore the data, if needed. For more information about
backing up your data using ReadyNAS Vault, see 

 on page 233.

When you back up data to a remote destination or recover it from a remote source, data is transferred
over a network using file-sharing protocols.

You can select which protocol you want to use for the job. The options that are available to you depend
on how your ReadyNAS system is configured. Backup protocols are described in the following table.