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How to backup desktop drive now that readycloud is gone?
Does any know of a way to back up desktop drive using Rsync or similar?
Rsync is more of a linux utility.
One option you might look at is FreeFileSync.
It would let you do incremental backups of the PC files to the NAS - either manually or on a schedule. It can even wake up the PC to do the backup if you want.
Microsoft has a built-in utility called robocopy that you could also use. But it requires using the command line - so you'd either create a script for it if you go that route, or find a GUI that uses it.
tigerten wrote:
There is cwRsync server which was discontinued and can still be found. Not sure How i can turn my PC into a Rsync server and back it up to Readynas.
What you'd want is the PC to be an rsync client (since the NAS is the destination).
Personally I use Acronis TrueImage to make image backups of my PCs weekly to the NAS. That allows me to completely recover the PC (data and OS) if needed. That's not free though.
I also have some robocopy scripts that I run on some PCs.
While I also use Acronis, I no longer recommend it to new users. The reasons are two-fold: It is now only available as a (high-priced, IMHO) subscription and the newest file format (which can be overridden with some "background" manipulation, but not in a straightforward way) is clearly intended to steer people to Acronis' own (also overpriced, IMHO) network storage. Storage solutions that are not "aware" of Acronis' method of tacking on changes to an existing file instead of creating separate incremental files as it used to can waste a lot of time and space because they see the entire file as new. It's been a while since I looked for alternatives, but the free version of AOMEI Backupper seemed to be a pretty good alternative when I did. A lot depends on whether you are looking for image backup (to restore after a hard drive crash, or even to a new computer) or file backup. Like Acronis, AOMEI can do both.
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