Automatic backup/sync to an external USB drive

You can schedule a Frontview backup job to a USB drive, but it would have to be FAT32, NTSF or EXT. The USB drives do not support NFS or rsync. In order to use rsync to synchronize the files on your NAS to another device, the other device would have to support it as well. This would limit the other device to an NAS that supports rsync or maybe some Linux boxes. Up to the introduction of the Duo (v2) and NV+ (v2) which use the Marvell processor, all ReadyNAS units did. Not all the competitors boxes do either. Currently the only ReadyNAS devices that do not support rsync are the Duo (v2) and NV+ (v2) and staff is working on adding features, but I don't know when that will be.

My NVX BE (NAS1) backs up all shares nightly to my NVX Pioneer (NAS2) nightly via rsync. I agree that is the best of worlds, but a more expensive option than a USB drive. However, when you get much beyond 1TB of data, it is far more appealing. I quit using USB drives once I got past 200GB of data and long before I upgraded from my older NV+ to the NVX units 18 months ago.