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JohnWB
May 01, 2013Aspirant
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...
StephenB
May 11, 2013Guru - Experienced User
Based on the forum join date, the OP must have a Duo V1 which does not support USB 3.0 and has a rather slow processor.
mjburns wrote: So a USB 3.0 drive connected to a PC which is on a gigabit ethernet network, and the ReadyNAS is on the same gigabit ethernet network, has higher throughput than the same USB 3.0 dive connected directly to the ReadyNAs' USB 3.0 port? If true, this implies a poor implementation of USB 3.0 in the ReadyNAS. Does anyone know what the ReadyNAS' internal issue is?
Based on the smallnetbuilder review, the performance of a duo v2 on local USB 3.0 backup appears to be about the same as NAS read speed. So in that case, the network backup speed should be about the same as the local backup.
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