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USB External HDD
Hi everyone. I hope this fits within this topic. Anyway, I recently upgraded to a Ultra 4+ and using Lion. I also have a Seagate USB external HDD that I am trying to transfer over to the Utra. I c...
dbott67 wrote: What is the make, model and size of the USB drive? Is it on the HCL (http://www.readynas.com/?cat=37)?
Normally, you should be able to plug in the USB drive into one of the ports and then create a backup job in Frontview to copy the data from the drive to the NAS (or vice-versa).
Basic steps are:
1. Plug USB drive into ReadyNAS.
2. Login to Frontview > Backup > Add new backup job.
3. Select backup source - USB Front/Rear Top/Rear Bottom
4. Select destination - you would select which share you want the files copied to (ie "Share: media" for backup your movies, pictures, etc.).
5. Select schedule.
6. Select options.
Make sure that you enable "Fast USB writes" in Frontview > System > Performance (requires reboot). Other performance factors to consider are the filesystem on the USB drive (FAT vs. NTFS vs. ext3). FAT and ext3 will offer the best performance.
I have a 500gb Seagate Free Agent. I saw that a couple people using them (2tb models).
Would the above procedure erase any data from the external?
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