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Backup from Readynas to local windows PC
I have just recently bought and configured my Readynas Duo. My reasons for this are that I was running short of space on my Windows 7 PC and I also wanted to use the Readynas as a media server and give 'always on' access to my files from the other laptops we have. The Readynas has a pair of 2TB disk with x-raid mirroring.
I have moved all my files from my Windows 7 PC to the Readynas. That's my music, pictures, documents and videos. Although I'm fairly comfortable with the backup security of the RAID mirror for the majority of my files (it's a home environment and I don't have the funds to be able to create additional backups of such a large amount of data), there are however some files that I'd like to create additional backups of (things like my important documents and precious pictures for example).
This is where my problems start. My thought was that I would use ones of the many free backup packages available to backup selected files and folders from my Readynas to a backup folder on my Windows 7 PC c: drive. However, what I'm finding with every piece of backup software I've come across so far is that it won't allow your source files to be on network drives. They have to be internal or directly attached drives.
Does anyone know of any free software which will allow me to backup in this way? Additionally, the fact that nothing I look at is able to do this so far, can anyone comment on whether my strategy if fundamentally flawed in some way? I'm guessing my only other option is to move my most precious files back to my PC and then do some kind of real time sync to a folder on the NAS. I really don't want to go down this route if I can help it though.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated :)
I have moved all my files from my Windows 7 PC to the Readynas. That's my music, pictures, documents and videos. Although I'm fairly comfortable with the backup security of the RAID mirror for the majority of my files (it's a home environment and I don't have the funds to be able to create additional backups of such a large amount of data), there are however some files that I'd like to create additional backups of (things like my important documents and precious pictures for example).
This is where my problems start. My thought was that I would use ones of the many free backup packages available to backup selected files and folders from my Readynas to a backup folder on my Windows 7 PC c: drive. However, what I'm finding with every piece of backup software I've come across so far is that it won't allow your source files to be on network drives. They have to be internal or directly attached drives.
Does anyone know of any free software which will allow me to backup in this way? Additionally, the fact that nothing I look at is able to do this so far, can anyone comment on whether my strategy if fundamentally flawed in some way? I'm guessing my only other option is to move my most precious files back to my PC and then do some kind of real time sync to a folder on the NAS. I really don't want to go down this route if I can help it though.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated :)
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- RAID is a high availability or redundancy solution. If data is stored on a single device it is not backed up. There are some problems RAID can't protect you against. See RAID is not a backup. RAID is great (I use it on all my ReadyNAS devices), but each user does have to decide what data they backup, how important their data is to them.
I would suggest you consider looking at e.g. DeltaCopy. You can enable Rsync on the NAS and configure rsync for your shares then use the Deltacopy client to do pull backups to your PC. - download Rsync server for windows, set up the folder, firewall on port 873 etc.
set up Rsync on readynas folder, set a backup job in the readynas to the PC
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