Genie Backup Manager
LaCie bundles the Genie Backup Manager Pro 8, which is a versatile backup solution well-suited to the 4big Quadra. One of its features is the selective backup of file formats, such as Office 2000-2007 files. Disaster recovery is also supported. All you need to do is create a bootable CD, which can be used to recover a system in distress. The backup set will either consist of a single archive protected using optional 256-bit AES encryption, or you can choose plain text backup, which allows direct access to files within the backup folder. Scheduled backup, as well as full/incremental backups, are on the feature list as well.
The Genie Backup Manager Pro 8 is an intuitive and rather professional software addition.
First, create a new backup job.
You don’t have to use the 4big Quadra as the backup target; you may also choose other locations. However, the solution is based on drive letters, which means that you have to know the drive letter of your Lacie product.
In the third step, you can select and narrow down the file types you want the Backup Manager to include.
You may also select backup locations.
This is the most important settings window, where you can select incremental, full, mirroring or differential backup. Incremental includes all files since the last backup, while differential includes all file changed since the last full backup. ZIP compression can also be selected as an option, though this will slow down the backup process, since this feature has not been thread-optimized. Encryption is a nice add-on as well, and is highly recommended for corporate data, where security is essential.
Go!
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Beware of this unit... There's a very nice article in German's CT Magazine that describes some 32-bit limitations and its consequences. Because of 2 TB limit it can overwrite the first sectors and corrupt all data on it just by connecting to a Windows PC alone.... Besides that, not all chipsets will work with this unit.
You said "..Here is one that stores up to 4 GB, is extremely stylish,..."
Do you really mean 4gb or was that a typo?
Keep reading. Further down it say 4TB.
Sorry lads, all changed now. Just this second noticed.
this "stylish" LaCie is no match for the Qnap TS 639 Pro. If you care about safe storage why this Quadro does not support Raid 6?? If you want to keep important data safe, in my case it is 30 years of photography,
use server-drives like WD 1002FBYS which are a bit more expensive but also 24/7 drives and not those seagate barracudas. Also the Quadro is pretty slow. At least compared to the Qnaps. And also not more exoensive. Before I switched to Qnap I bought about 8 TB of LaCie drives. They worked but in case you need a good Raid-system think twice!