The U8-500 Plus 8-Bay NAS Enclosure from TerraMaster is an integrated data backup solution designed for small and medium businesses. It combines a professional storage management system, backup software tools, and a hardware platform, offering deep integration and comprehensive backup services, along with advanced security strategies to ensure system stability and data security across all aspects. With multiple protection mechanisms, including backup, snapshot, synchronization, and remote disaster recovery, TerraMaster has established a robust data protection barrier to help ensure the security of data across various terminals and servers in diverse enterprise application scenarios.
The U8-500 Plus is equipped with a 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1255U 10-Core processor and 16GB of 4800 MHz DDR5 RAM. Also featured are eight 3.5/2.5" SATA drive bays that can accommodate HDDs and SSDs, plus two M.2 2280 NVMe slots for SSD caching. Installed drives can be configured for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, JBOD, Single, TRAID, and TRAID+ modes depending on your performance and security preferences. The U8-500 Pro seamlessly integrates into your network through its dual 10 Gigabit RJ45 ports, which can be combined using link aggregation to support 20GbE connections with compatible devices. Connecting external peripherals to the three USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports, one USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port, and one HDMI 2.0 port allow you to share files and media with connected network devices and displays. Thanks to sequential write speeds of up to 2090 MB/s and random read/write speeds of up to 450 MB/s, the U8-500 Plus can also be used for 4K video at resolutions up to 4096 x 2160 at 60 fps.
Necessity of Data Protection
Globally, both large and small enterprises are facing the threat of data security incidents every day, such as ransomware attacks, employee's accidental deletion of data, and unexpected server downtime. These incidents will not only have a significant impact on the core information and business continuity of the enterprise, but may even directly threaten the survival and development of the enterprise. Especially in the digital and information age nowadays, data has become the most valuable asset of the enterprise. Once the data is lost or leaked, the consequences will be disastrous.
Integrated Backup Solution
TerraMaster Backup Server is an integrated data backup solution designed for small and medium-sized businesses. With a one-time payment, it eliminates additional software fees and places no limits on backup tasks or storage capacity. This solution combines a professional storage management system, backup software tools, and a hardware platform, offering deep integration and comprehensive backup services. TerraMaster employs advanced security strategies to ensure system stability and data security across all aspects. TerraMaster Backup Server provides a one-stop enterprise data backup solution for data stored on employee personal computers, physical servers, or virtual machines. With multiple protection mechanisms, including backup, snapshot, synchronization, and remote disaster recovery, we establish a robust data protection barrier to ensure the security of data across various terminals and servers in diverse enterprise application scenarios.
Business Backup Suite Provides an Integrated Backup Solution
BBS (Business Backup Suite) is a comprehensive commercial backup solution developed by TerraMaster. Its core components include Duple Backup (DB), Centralized Backup (CB), TerraSync (TS), CloudSync, and Snapshot. Duple Backup is designed for off-site disaster recovery of data on TerraMaster backup servers. Centralized Backup handles the centralized backup of data from employee computers, file servers, virtual machines, and more to the local TerraMaster backup server. TerraSync enables data synchronization between multiple backup servers and between backup servers and PCs. CloudSync facilitates cloud-based disaster recovery solutions. The Snapshot feature provides snapshots and restoration of file systems and folders, offering protection against ransomware attacks.
BBS (Business Backup Suite) is specifically designed for business applications, offering complete functionality and meeting the high-performance requirements of enterprise environments. Users can flexibly combine TerraMaster's BBS backup components based on their specific needs to create diverse backup strategies, effectively addressing the majority of backup requirements for small and medium-sized enterprises.
BBS (Business Backup Suite) is specifically designed for business applications, offering complete functionality and meeting the high-performance requirements of enterprise environments. Users can flexibly combine TerraMaster's BBS backup components based on their specific needs to create diverse backup strategies, effectively addressing the majority of backup requirements for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Advantage of TerraMaster BBS
Flexible Combination for Deployment In All Scenarios
Depending on application scenarios, enterprise size, or security level requirements, core applications can be flexibly combined to implement diverse backup strategies. For instance, enterprises with 50 or fewer employees can use a single-server deployment with off-site disaster recovery to save costs. In contrast, enterprises with 100 to 200 or more employees can opt for a dual-server deployment, integrating off-site disaster recovery with cloud disaster recovery solutions.
Simple and Efficient Deployment
BBS features a fully graphical user interface, simplifying configuration and eliminating the need for coding. This user friendly design reduces the learning curve, enhances deployment efficiency, and lower management and operating costs.
Powerful and Secure
BBS supports high storage efficiency, capable of handling file backup demands at a scale of tens of millions of files. It employs global LTS encryption technology and offers a variety of security strategies, combining active and passive protection to meet the data security needs of different organizations.
Depending on application scenarios, enterprise size, or security level requirements, core applications can be flexibly combined to implement diverse backup strategies. For instance, enterprises with 50 or fewer employees can use a single-server deployment with off-site disaster recovery to save costs. In contrast, enterprises with 100 to 200 or more employees can opt for a dual-server deployment, integrating off-site disaster recovery with cloud disaster recovery solutions.
Simple and Efficient Deployment
BBS features a fully graphical user interface, simplifying configuration and eliminating the need for coding. This user friendly design reduces the learning curve, enhances deployment efficiency, and lower management and operating costs.
Powerful and Secure
BBS supports high storage efficiency, capable of handling file backup demands at a scale of tens of millions of files. It employs global LTS encryption technology and offers a variety of security strategies, combining active and passive protection to meet the data security needs of different organizations.
Computer Backup of Employees
The data stored on employees' personal computers, including work results, design plans, and other information, are not only key intellectual properties and compliance elements of an enterprise but also crucial for operational development. For R&D-based enterprises, the R&D materials and innovative ideas within this data are essential for maintaining technological innovation and competitiveness. Thus, ensuring the integrity and security of this data is vital for enterprises.
Challenges in Backing Up Employee Computers
Backing up data from employee computers in enterprises presents several challenges, including the tedium of manual backups, complexity in data management, human error, cost concerns, and the need for robust security and privacy protections. Additionally, network performance can impact backup processes. To address these challenges, enterprises should implement centralized backup solutions and establish comprehensive backup management systems and strategies.
Active Backup Solution for Employee Computers
Centralized Backup (CB) is a backup tool developed by TerraMaster that offers a centralized, proactive backup solution tailored to the needs of business users. By deploying CB on an integrated backup server, IT administrators can centrally back up the storage space or even system partitions of employee computers within the enterprise. The backup server initiates the process, eliminating the need for individual configuration on each host.
Windows PC Data Backup
Using Centralized Backup (CB), employees don't need to be involved in the backup process. IT administrators can initiate backup requests from the server using the PC backup module of Centralized Backup to actively backup folders, disk partitions, or system partitions on hundreds of employees' computers. Centralized Backup effectively safeguards digital assets scattered across employees' computers and significantly reduces the workload for IT administrators.
Multi-Version Recovery Management
CB offers multi-version management for backup targets. In the event of a disaster, IT administrators can roll back to a specific version in the version library and restore data to the designated host. Each CB backup task supports up to 9999 backup versions.
macOS Computer Data Backup
It offers protection for critical data and systems through Time Machine Backup. The backup server can serve as the destination for Time Machine, automatically backing up data from multiple Macs. Time Machine Backup also includes space quota settings to prevent Mac backups from consuming excessive server storage.
Passive Computer Backup Solution for Employees
In addition to Centralized Backup for IT administrators, TerraMaster backup server offers TerraSync, a computer backup tool that employees can manage independently. TerraSync provides both data synchronization and backup functions, enabling employees to create their own synchronization or backup strategies based on the importance and frequency of data use. Employees can synchronize or back up data from their computers to TerraMaster backup servers. TerraSync also supports data synchronization across multiple devices and platforms, such as Windows computers, macOS computers, and iOS/Android mobile devices, enhancing mobile office convenience and improving employee work efficiency.
Multi-Client Support
The TerraSync service supports a range of community used clients, including backup servers, Windows and macOS computers, and iOS/Android mobile devices. It can synchronize with up to 2000 clients.
Smart and Efficient Synchronization Strategies
By monitoring folder and file statuses, the TerraSync client can promptly detect changes and quickly synchronize new or modified files by comparing them with the server.
Historical Version Recovery Management
TerraSync Server manages historical version of synchronized and backup files. In the event of accidental data deletion or a disaster, users can search historical version records via the client and select the appropriate version for restoration. Each files can retain up to 32 versions.
Team Collaboration
By configuring personal and team folders, users can protect private data and create collaboration groups with specific permissions for group members. TerraSync facilitates file sharing and teamwork, enhancing overall team efficiency.
Directory Backup
In addition to file synchronization, TerraSync's Windows and macOS desktop clients offer the ability to back up computer directories. Users can back up specific folders on their computers to your TNAS. In the event of accidental data deletion or a disaster, users can access historical version records through the client and restore the appropriate version.
Data Security
To ensure robust data security, TerraSync employs SSL certificate encryption for all backup and synchronization tasks between the client and server. Users also have the option to import and configure their own trusted digital certificates.
Server Backup Solution
The server is the central hub for enterprise digital information, running essential applications like OA, CRM, and ERP, and storing crucial business data. TerraMaster Centralized Backup (CB) provides a comprehensive solution by using the backup server to centrally back up storage spaces or system partitions of enterprise computing and file servers.
One Machine, Multiple Uses
Deploying CB on the TerraMaster backup server enables enterprises to meet the backup needs of employee computers, servers, file servers, virtual machines, and workstations with a single device. It supports backups for up to 200 devices, significantly reducing IT investment costs.
Server Backup
The CB server backup function allows IT administrators to simultaneously back up the systems and data of up to 200 servers to the backup server. In case of an incident, they can quickly restore affected hosts, minimizing the impact of equipment failures on business operations.
Supported versions include Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, and 2012.
Supported versions include Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, and 2012.
File Server Backup
File servers are central to storing and enterprise's digital assets. Disasters Disasters such as power outages, equipment failures, or system malfunctions can lead to the loss of these valuable assets. By using CB's file server backup function, IT administrators can back up file directories from multiple file servers simultaneously, supports up to 108TB of storage space. This significantly reduces the risk of data loss due to disasters. CB supports servers running SMB and Rsync 3.0 or above (Linux) protocols.
Multi-Version Recovery Management
CB offers multi-version management for backup targets. In the event of a disaster, IT administrators can roll back to a specific version in the version library and restore the data to the designated destination host.
Complete Process Control
CB provides detailed historical records of backup and restoration configurations and access to millions of logs. This allows users to monitor backup progress and detect any exceptions. With the notification feature enabled, administrators can promptly track the status of backups and restorations.
Virtual Machine Backup Solution
Virtual machine backup is crucial for maintaining the integrity and recoverability of critical business systems and data. In the face of risks such as hardware failure, software errors, human mistakes, or natural disasters, backups can swiftly restore the virtual machine to its most recent stable state, minimizing service interruption, ensuring business continuity, and preventing data loss and potential financial impact. Therefore, regular virtual machine backups are an essential component of any enterprise risk management strategy.
Disaster Recovery Solution
To safeguard against data threats from hardware failures, system malfunctions, theft, and natural disasters, TerraMaster's enterprise data backup solution includes a secondary layer of protection called Duplicate Backup (DB). DB is a robust disaster recovery tool with a user-friendly interface. It enables IT administrators to back up important folders, entire data volumes, or iSCSI LUNs from the backup server to remote locations such as another backup server, file server, or cloud storage. Supporting various backup strategies, including incremental and multi-version backups, DB ensures a straightforward and efficient backup and restoration process, facilitating rapid data recovery in the event of equipment failure.
To prevent data loss in the event of an accident, the 3-2-1 backup strategy is widely used. This approach involves maintaining at least 3 backups of the data, with 2 stored on different devices and at least 1 stored off-site. Duple Backup, a professional tool designed specifically for TerraMaster backup servers, is ideal for implementing the 3-2-1 backup strategy.
To prevent data loss in the event of an accident, the 3-2-1 backup strategy is widely used. This approach involves maintaining at least 3 backups of the data, with 2 stored on different devices and at least 1 stored off-site. Duple Backup, a professional tool designed specifically for TerraMaster backup servers, is ideal for implementing the 3-2-1 backup strategy.
Multiple Backup Targets
Duple Backup supports the backup of shared folders, specific file directories, iSCSI LUNs, and their configurations, or entire volumes on the backup server. It can handle up to 10 million files and provide up to 108TB of storage space for backups.
Multiple Destinations
Depending on your business needs, you can choose up to 4 different backup destinations for your data, including another TerraMaster backup server, a file server, a WebDAV server, or multiple mainstream cloud storage options. Using the Duple Backup Vault client, you can simplify the backup configuration process by setting up mutual backups between two TerraMaster backup servers.
Diverse Backup Strategies
Depending on your business needs and storage resource allocation, you can select incremental backup, multi-version backup, or hybrid-mode backup. TerraMaster's unique hybrid-mode strategy offers data deduplication to enhance storage space utilization and supports up to 9999 backup versions.
Data Security
To ensure data security, Duple Backup uses SSL certificate encryption throughout the backup process, protecting data transmission.
Efficient Transmission
To enhance backup efficiency, data is compressed before transmission, achieving up to 30% compression. This reduces network bandwidth usage, saves storage space, and lowers IT investment costs for customers.
Easy Restoration
Duple Backup offers an intuitive graphical interface that provides tailored restoration methods for various destinations. In the event of an accident, users can quickly restore data using Duple Backup's tool, minimizing losses and reducing recovery time.
Cloud Data Backup
By using TerraMaster's CloudSync service with the integrated backup server, enterprises can fully protect their network disk and cloud SaaS data. As an advanced cloud disk synchronization application, CloudSync enables high-speed, real-time synchronization between local backup servers and cloud storage. It efficiently downloads cloud data for easy access, overcomes Internet bandwidth limitations, and significantly boosts work efficiency. This cost-effective solution offers reliable off-site disaster recovery strategies, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.
Advantages of the CloudSync Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution
Supports synchronization with major cloud storage services, including Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Dropbox, and Baidu Cloud.
- Offers bidirectional disaster recovery strategies, including cloud-to-local and local-to-cloud
- Monitors file changes in real-time and triggers immediate data synchronization
- Supports various synchronization strategies to accommodate flexible data utilization needs
- Provides data encryption during upload to prevent sensitive data leakage on cloud storage
- Offers flexible synchronization options and scheduled tasks to avoid network bandwidth congestion during peak business hours
Avoid Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware poses a major threat to data security. A single compromised device can swiftly and discreetly infect your entire network, including network-connected backups, often without detection. Ransomware not only encrypts your data but can also delete, overwrite, or destroy it. Failing to pay the ransom risks permanent loss of critical business data.
In addition to backup and disaster recovery solutions, TerraMaster Backup Server offers a powerful tool against ransomware attacks: folder and file system snapshots.
In addition to backup and disaster recovery solutions, TerraMaster Backup Server offers a powerful tool against ransomware attacks: folder and file system snapshots.
Folder Snapshot
- Leveraging the COW (Copy-on-Write) feature of the Btrfs file system, snapshots are highly efficient and storage space is optimized
- The scheduled task can take a snapshot of the folder or iSCSI LUN every hour
- Each folder can hold up to 1024 snapshots
- Arranged chronologically, browsing and restoring snapshots are quick and easy
- Enhance snapshot security by supporting incremental snapshot replication
- When the server goes down, the business can swiftly switch to the backup server and resume operations
File System Snapshot (TFSS)
- TerraMaster's Unique Snapshot Protection Solution
- Minimize human error, create full system or volume snapshots, and enhance data security
- Adopt a read-only snapshot storage method to minimize the risk of ransomware affecting snapshots and enhance overall snapshot security
- Customizable snapshot scheduling tasks allow for flexible arrangement in alignment with the business operation cycle
- One-click activation and restoration simplify IT administrators' tasks
Applications of TerraMaster Backup Servers
The TerraMaster integrated backup server offers enterprise-grade disaster recovery solutions tailored to meet the demands of freight, efficiency, collaboration, compatibility, and security in a digitally centralized enterprise environment. It is ideal for data disaster recovery in small to medium-sized enterprises, campus cloud disk and backup solutions, document management for design institutions, and PACS digital medical data storage.
How to Choose TerraMaster Backup Server?
The TerraMaster integrated backup server can tailor backup strategies based on enterprise scale and user count, utilizing appropriate hardware resources. The U8-500 Plus is recommended as a main backup server or offsite disaster recovery backup server for 100 to 200 people.
Powerful Backup Server
The U8-500 Plus is equipped with an Intel Core i7-1255U processor, featuring 10 cores, 12 threads, and a turbo frequency of up to 4.7 GHz. It includes Intel Iris Xe Graphics with a dynamic frequency of 1.25 GHz and supports AES-NI hardware encryption. With 16GB of 4800 MHz DDR5 memory and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, it ensures robust performance. Additionally, it has two M.2 NVMe slots for Hyper Cache acceleration, enhancing disk array storage efficiency. This makes it an ideal high-performance backup solution for small to medium-sized businesses.
264TB High-Capacity Storage Space
The U8-500 Plus can accommodate up to twelve 3.5" SATA hard drives, offering a remarkable maximum storage capacity of up to 198TB (using 22TB HDDs as an example). This is sufficient to meet the backup and storage needs of most small and medium-sized enterprises. Additionally, through the 10 Gb/s USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface, the U8-500 Plus can easily connect to external USB storage devices, enabling further storage expansion. For example, when used with the TerraMaster D6-320, it can increase storage capacity by an additional 132TB, meeting your ever-growing data storage demands.
20Gb Lightning-Fast Throughput Performance
The U8-500 Plus is equipped with two 10GbE copper cable 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, offering up to 20 Gb/s of bandwidth for data transmission. In real-world scenarios, combined with SMB multichannel, the U8-500 Plus delivers impressive throughput performance, with sequential write speeds up to 2090 MB/s and 4K random read/write speeds up to 450 MB/s. This exceptional performance ensures smooth image and video read/write capabilities, making it ideal for film and video production, post-production in audio-video studios, and production teams. It also provides outstanding random read/write performance for virtualized environments and database applications.
Versatile Storage Options, Configure as You Wish
The U8-500 Plus offers a comprehensive range of storage configurations, supporting various RAID types including Single, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10. It also introduces TerraMaster's flexible array (TRAID/TRAID+), which enables online capacity expansion, migration, and redundant disk configuration within the array. Users can create multiple storage spaces and choose between Ext4 or Btrfs file systems based on their business needs. For added flexibility, pair the U8-500 Plus with the TerraMaster USB DAS disk array to seamlessly expand storage capacity as needed.
A New Generation Operating System
The U8-500 Plus features the latest TOS 6 operating system, introducing over 40 new features and optimizing more than 370 details for an unparalleled upgrade experience. TOS 6 boasts a completely revamped user interface, transforming the system from the inside out. Enhanced security measures ensure even more secure and reliable data storage. Additionally, TOS 6 is fully compatible with the Ubuntu root file system, making it familiar and easy to maintain for a wide range of users.
Across-Platform File Services
The U8-500 Plus supports mainstream file services including SMB, SFTP/FTP, iSCSI, NFS, and WebDAV, fully meeting cross-platform file service needs in various network environments. It is compatible with Windows AD domain and LDAP, making it easy to integrate into existing enterprise IT environments and improve management efficiency. Additionally, it offers multi-level permission management for users, user groups, and file directories, addressing comprehensive cross-department collaboration and data security requirements for enterprises.
Virtualization Tools to Facilitate Every Project
Leveraging the virtualization tools and hybrid storage architecture of the TerraMaster Operating System (TOS),the U8-500 Plus offers exceptional advantages in virtualization. The Docker Manager visualization tool makes managing containers and projects effortless. Additionally, with VirtualBox support, you can create a highly efficient virtualized environment, enabling your business to launch and become operational in a very short time.
System Level Security Protection
Facing increasingly rampant cyber attacks, network device security encounters unprecedented challenges. TOS offers a comprehensive suite of security measures, including PAM authentication, OTP two-factor authentication, AES 256-bit encryption, automatic account lockout, anti-DoS attack protocols, firewalls, and security isolation modes, all designed to effectively reduce the risk of malicious attacks. The recently introduced SPC (Security and Privacy Control) module has enhanced system security tenfold. SPC ensures that all executable programs running on the system are authorized and legitimate, further protecting user data from hackers and ransomware.
Multiple Commercial Applications
TNAS allows business users to easily build file servers, mail servers, web servers, FTP servers, MySQL databases, CRM, Node.js, Java VMs, and many other services, thereby satisfying the commercial requirement of various SMBs in such fields as education, consulting, finance, scientific research, and law.