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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...
I also have a query about ReadNas Duo (v1) backups to External USB Drive. I have several shares lets call them, Documents, Movies and Music. Each of those shares have several folders under them with file in them.
What I want to do is create three new Backup Jobs so that the contents of the "Documents Share" is copied to the External USB Drive into I folder called "Documents" that I have created, and the contents of the "Movies Share" is copied to the External USB Drive into I folder called "Movies" that I have created, the contents of the "Music Share" is copied to the External USB Drive into I folder called "Music" that I have created.
Now Step 1 of the Create New Backup Job procedure lets you select the Source (ie: "Documents" share) but Step 2 where you select Destination only lets you select the External Hard Drive (share) and does not let you specify the path on the External Hard drive (Ie: "Documents" Folder). And it is the same for the other backup jobs for Movies and Music.
So what then happens is if you select the External USB Harddrive as the destination everything backs up OK but all the folders from the different shares are all just mixed in together and not under their correct folder names (to relect the share names).
So the question is in Step 2 where you select Destination and you select the External Hard Drive (share) to back up to for each Backup Job how can you also specify the path on the External Hard drive (Ie: "Documents" Folder) where you want the contents of the "Documents" share to backup to. And then the same for the other Shares, Movies and Music so that the backup on the External USB Drive then reflects the structure of the Shares on the ReadNas Duo (v1).
A solution to this would be much appreciated as I have spent some time trying to work it out but just cant see how to do it.
What I want to do is create three new Backup Jobs so that the contents of the "Documents Share" is copied to the External USB Drive into I folder called "Documents" that I have created, and the contents of the "Movies Share" is copied to the External USB Drive into I folder called "Movies" that I have created, the contents of the "Music Share" is copied to the External USB Drive into I folder called "Music" that I have created.
Now Step 1 of the Create New Backup Job procedure lets you select the Source (ie: "Documents" share) but Step 2 where you select Destination only lets you select the External Hard Drive (share) and does not let you specify the path on the External Hard drive (Ie: "Documents" Folder). And it is the same for the other backup jobs for Movies and Music.
So what then happens is if you select the External USB Harddrive as the destination everything backs up OK but all the folders from the different shares are all just mixed in together and not under their correct folder names (to relect the share names).
So the question is in Step 2 where you select Destination and you select the External Hard Drive (share) to back up to for each Backup Job how can you also specify the path on the External Hard drive (Ie: "Documents" Folder) where you want the contents of the "Documents" share to backup to. And then the same for the other Shares, Movies and Music so that the backup on the External USB Drive then reflects the structure of the Shares on the ReadNas Duo (v1).
A solution to this would be much appreciated as I have spent some time trying to work it out but just cant see how to do it.
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