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Backup to External USB
Can anyone recommend a method to backup my ReadyNAS NV+ to a Seagate GoFlex External USB 1Tb drive? I intend to migrate from the NV+ to a diskless unit compatible with my Seagate Barricuda drives. I...
Why not just define a backup task in Frontview? You can specify "Volume: c" as the source and your USB drive as the destination, that will copy all data if your NAS is set up conventionally as a single volume.
If your intention is to use this USB copy only to migrate to another ReadyNAS I recommend you first format it to ext3 for maximum transfer speed. In any case I don't recommend using FAT32 (possibly how it is formatted now) because of all sorts of limitations in file size and permissions. You could use NTFS if you need read/write access to the USB disk on a Windows PC but it will considerably slow down the backup/restore on the ReadyNAS.
Another thought: assuming your NAS has redundant drives, another option would be to wait until your new NAS arrives then pull one of the disks from your old NAS and initialise it in the new one. Then do a NAS to NAS backup - much quicker than USB - after which you have time to double-check all your data on the new NAS before finally pulling its last disk and inserting into the new NAS, where it will automatically sync.
Of course you probably should make a copy to USB anyway before pulling the first disk, but the NAS to NAS method has the advantage of speed without the need to destroy the original before the data is safely on the new NAS. The USB disk would be used only for emergency disaster recovery rather than the recovery source.
If your intention is to use this USB copy only to migrate to another ReadyNAS I recommend you first format it to ext3 for maximum transfer speed. In any case I don't recommend using FAT32 (possibly how it is formatted now) because of all sorts of limitations in file size and permissions. You could use NTFS if you need read/write access to the USB disk on a Windows PC but it will considerably slow down the backup/restore on the ReadyNAS.
Another thought: assuming your NAS has redundant drives, another option would be to wait until your new NAS arrives then pull one of the disks from your old NAS and initialise it in the new one. Then do a NAS to NAS backup - much quicker than USB - after which you have time to double-check all your data on the new NAS before finally pulling its last disk and inserting into the new NAS, where it will automatically sync.
Of course you probably should make a copy to USB anyway before pulling the first disk, but the NAS to NAS method has the advantage of speed without the need to destroy the original before the data is safely on the new NAS. The USB disk would be used only for emergency disaster recovery rather than the recovery source.
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