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Backing up a partition on an external USB WD My Book to ReadyNAS 202
I am attempting to set up a back schedule from a partition on a 3TB external WD My book to a chosen share on ReadyNAS 202. Every time I attempt to complete the Remote system section I get the same e...
Afraid I've only just been able to look at this again after investigating NFS protocols and soon decided this was not the best approach for what I want. Anyway I now understand how this works, so created a fresh backup and this time put the share name only without the full path using just the Windows NAS/timestamp option, entered Login and password and tested the connection, this time it was successful, so I've managed to do a full test of a backup. The same also true for local to remote back up from ReadyNAS to FREENAS, so I am very happy I can now achieve all the backup options I need.
Thanks for your help
Heath
Hi HeathM,
I am not a MAC user so I am not that sure about this as well. Further checking though, I found that in order for you to use the NFS protocol for back-up on a MAC OS; you need to set an NFS share. I checked on how to do this on a MAC OS and it involves some console commands.
To be honest I cannot say if setting the source folder to shared does an NFS share already but you may want to check with someone for MAC support.
As an alternative, you can also connect your USB drive to one of the USB ports on the NAS and setup a back-up job for a Local source and a Local destination.
Regards,
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