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Automatic backup to ReadyNAS?
Hi all, I'm looking for suggestions to do automatic backup of folders/files to my ReadyNAS, similar to Dropbox but without the cloud. Specifically, I'd like to have a program that runs on my lapto...
If you're truly doing this for Backup, as opposed to making an updated file available across-your-network i.e. to other PCs, then I question that you'd want to alway "propagate changes". What if you've messed-up a file, or deleted it, on your laptop and need the last version--your "continuous backup" has the bad (or no) file on it to (try to) recover from.
I use syncback to backup my files to my NAS every day, keeping a week's worth of files before over-writing. Then I backup each month. So I have 7 plus 12 or 19 sets of files on my NAS at all times.
On my main computer with critical files I also have a 32Gb USB3.0 thumb/flash drive. For a laptop I'd think a flash drive for "continuous file backups" might be nice as it's with you whether connected to your network or not...
I use syncback to backup my files to my NAS every day, keeping a week's worth of files before over-writing. Then I backup each month. So I have 7 plus 12 or 19 sets of files on my NAS at all times.
On my main computer with critical files I also have a 32Gb USB3.0 thumb/flash drive. For a laptop I'd think a flash drive for "continuous file backups" might be nice as it's with you whether connected to your network or not...
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