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Help finding a Unix friendly RAID 1 backup

First time poster and a very new Unix user, so I'll just pre-apologize for stupid questions now.

Does anybody know of a good RAID 1 hard drive backup that is Unix friendly? I want to avoid any hardcore programming. Can you recommend both NAS and non-NAS options? I need to do nightly backups from a Unix data server running SAMBA/SWAT that currently has ~300 of 420 GB used split between public and user folders. This is for an office and involves sensitive data so I need a safe and secure option.

This is what I was able to find online that seems to fit what I'm looking for:
Buffalo Technology TeraStation Duo TS-WX2.0TL/R1 2x1 TB 368.98

Synology DiskStation DS211 21002x1 TB550.99

Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay RND2210 2x1 TB 393.6
Data Dock II DDQ-2000 2x1 TB 269.95
Do any of the above make sense? From what I can tell, only the Netgear is out of the box Unix friendly; the tech guys at Fantom couldn't tell me whether the data dock II was or not. Can you recommend any of these or other models? I don't really think I need the NAS option and it seems you pay considerably more for that. Should I be looking at an entirely different type of data storage? (Cloud storage is not an option)

In the meantime, while I figure this out, my boss wants me to backup the data asap. I was thinking about getting a consumer grade 500 GB or 1 TB external with an ethernet port and simply manually backing up the data via windows. I was thinking this would provide a good stop gap and, once the RAID 1 is setup, could simply be manually backed up weekly and provide essentially an additional disk to the RAID 1 array.

For this I was looking between these two:
Iomega Home Media 34337 1 TB 99.99
Buffalo LS-CH1.0TL 1 TB 99.99
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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ntfsprogs

NTFSPROGS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      NTFSPROGS(8)

NAME

       ntfsprogs - tools for doing neat things with NTFS

OVERVIEW

       ntfsprogs is a suite of NTFS utilities based around a shared library.  The tools are available for free and come with full source code.

TOOLS

       mkntfs(8) - Create an NTFS filesystem.

       ntfscat(8) - Dump a file's content to the standard output.

       ntfsclone(8) - Efficiently clone, backup, restore or rescue NTFS.

       ntfscluster(8) - Locate the files which use the given sectors or clusters.

       ntfscmp(8) - Compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences.

       ntfscp(8) - Overwrite a file on an NTFS.

       ntfsfix(8) - Check and fix some common errors, clear the LogFile and make Windows perform a thorough check next time it boots.

       ntfsinfo(8) - Show information about NTFS or one of the files or directories within it.

       ntfslabel(8) - Show, or set, an NTFS filesystem's volume label.

       ntfsls(8) - List information about files in a directory residing on an NTFS.

       ntfsmount(8) - Read-write NTFS userspace driver.

       ntfsresize(8) - Resize NTFS without losing data.

       ntfsundelete(8) - Recover deleted files from NTFS.

AUTHORS

       The  tools  were  written  by  Anton  Altaparmakov, Carmelo Kintana, Cristian Klein, Erik Sornes, Giang Nguyen, Holger Ohmacht, Lode Leroy,
       Matthew J. Fanto, Per Olofsson, Richard Russon, Szabolcs Szakacsits, Yura Pakhuchiy and Yuval Fledel.

AVAILABILITY

       The ntfsprogs can be downloaded from:
       http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37

       These manual pages can be viewed online at:
       http://man.linux-ntfs.org/

SEE ALSO

       libntfs-gnomevfs(8)

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