Can I use a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device to store my encrypted data?
Box Backup provides a bandwidth-efficient path between the client bbackupd and server bbstored. Do not place a slow network between bbstored and the disk, or use a slow disk. Or if you do, then don’t come complaining to us about it. Users have reported problems (very poor performance) with some cheap NAS devices (e.g. Iomega StorCenter 150d, Linksys NSS6000). If you back up to such a device and have poor performance, please check how it performs with a lot of small files in general (e.g. time copying a Linux source tree onto it) and consider raising a bug report with the manufacturer if it performs much worse than you expect. The necessary POSIX semantics for safe operation of bbstored, e.g. allowing renaming over existing files (atomic replace), may not work correctly, particularly on an SMB NAS server, particularly if it runs a Windows operating system. If you want external storage it is recommended to use e.g. USB or FireWire harddisks or eSATA, all of them have very high data bandw
