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hokieguy
Dec 17, 2012Aspirant
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...
StephenB
Dec 17, 2012Guru - Experienced User
I agree that a continuous backup scheme needs to be able to roll back to previous versions and also recover deleted files. Otherwise you have no protection against user error - and your protection against disk failure is also not as strong as you'd want. For instance if a directory gets corrupted so no files are seen, you wouldn't want the backup to irrevocably delete the files on the copy.
maxblack wrote: 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 always "propagate changes"...
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