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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:
wrz0170 wrote: Would the above procedure erase any data from the external?
No, it's strictly a copy from the USB to the NAS. Of course, if you got really drunk and got the settings backwards (copied files *to* the USB and also selected "Remove the contents of the backup destination before a full backup is performed. This will clean the backup destination of files which were removed in the backup source. Warning, This will delete all files and folders in the backup destination" then you might have a problem. :wink:
Thanks :) I went the round about way and hooked up my laptop via ethernet. That did the trick to get the data off the external and onto the NAS in a quick fashion. Unfortunately, I tried the above and could not get it to go. Not sure if it's a read/write thing or not. I will keep plugging away.
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