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Ready NAS 212 and Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office
Hello Everyone, I am running Windows 10 64bit Firmware: 6.10.5. Hotfix 1 I have a Netgear Ready NAS 212 and want to backup my files from a LaCie RAID USB storage device. I am using Acro...
FWIW, I use Acronis TrueImage to back up my PCs to my NAS, and don't have any performance issues. Not sure how that compares with what you are doing.
Is there a reason you need to use Acronis to back up the Lacie to the NAS? There are other options you could try. FreeFileSync is one possibility.
Hi Stephen B,
Thanks for the response. I use Acronis simply because I use it for all my other backups and I have a long subscription to it.
I only have an issue with it when trying to do a backup to my NAS 212. I suspect that Acronis is checkeing every individual file for viruses before allowing it to be copied. Certainly something is slowing it down. Currently, it is estimating about 15 days to do a 4TB backup from a USB 3.1 drive.
Acronis suggest it might be a permissions problem?
RacingTog wrote:
Currently, it is estimating about 15 days to do a 4TB backup from a USB 3.1 drive.
- Are you doing an image backup with Acronis? Or backing up individual files?
- Is the PC using wireless or ethernet?
- Do you have similar performance issues when backing up from the PC hard drive?
You might want to test the throughput from the PC by copying some files from the drive over to the NAS with drag and drop.
RacingTog wrote:
I suspect that Acronis is checking every individual file for viruses before allowing it to be copied.
I don't use the Acronis file backup myself - just the image backup. So I don't have any recent experience with its throughput.
AV could be part of the puzzle - do you have AV enabled on the NAS as well?
Also, what hard drives are you using in the NAS?
Hi Stephen,
I am backing up a folder from the LaCie drive. The folder has many subfolders.
The PC is using Ethernet.
No, I can back up from the internal PC drives with no problem. I can even back up between two external hard drives, but they are USB connected, not on the network.
I have AV on my PC (Acronis) and on the NAS.
I don't know the specific drives on the NAS but they were propper NAS hard drives, red, from Western Digital. Set in Raid1.
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