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A better way to backup Duo to a USB drive ?
I have been backing up my Duo to a USB drive (formated with ext3) plugged into the rear USB port which has worked ok, if a little slow. I just turn it on once a week & do a backup which adds any new f...
That is true, but there are incremental backups that can be run on the Windows OS as well (for instance Robocopy).
mjburns wrote: The USB drive connected directly to the ReadyNAS being backed up via resync can be NTFS formatted. It will be readable on a Windows PC, although the Windows PC may squawk about permissions depending on what you try to do with the drive while connected to the PC. But since you'd probably have Administrator permission on the PC, you can just reset all of the permissions on the USB drive.
If you want fastest backup speed, backing up over gigabit ethernet to a PC is the way to go - it is faster than directly connecting a USB drive to the Duo no matter how the drive is formatted.
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