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Backup to TWO external USB Hard Drives ONE at a time for off-site storage
So as the subject says. I'm succesfully backing up the NAS every night on schedule to ONE USB drive at a customer's premises. After speaking to the customer the question was: Can we add a SEC...
I suggest creating a single backup job that specifies the USB port as the destination (and not the drive). There are some firmware versions that won't allow this selection if you have the drive inserted - so you might want to eject the drive first.
I don't do backups this way, so you will want to test it to make sure it works as expected.
If you want to prune out deleted files on the NAS, you can specify rsync as the protocol, and specify the source as remote instead of local (using 127.0.0.1 as the host address). Then you will get incremental backups, and you should see an option to delete files not present on the source.
FWIW, if you specify a local source and destination, the backup job will use linux cp, not rsync.
Hello Ramrunner,
Welcome to the community!
If you want to use another USB drive on another USB port of the NAS to backup the same source, you will still need to configure it. I think it is best you configure the Backup Button first then use the same port where you will unplug the first USB drive so you will just need to push the backup button on the unit itself to make it start.
When configuring Backup Job with USB drive, use the options USB front, USB bottom, front or back.
Regards,
Not quite what I was looking for I think.
To clarify - I'd really like ONE backup job. For a week or so I have external drive #1 attached. Then every (lets say) Friday, I swap it with USB drive number 2 on the SAME PORT (and vice versa the next week) so one drive can be kept off-site. The external drives are big enough to accomodate multiple full backups.
Ideally I'd like the Netgear to IGNORE the fact it is a different drive attached and just follow the normal procedures of 1 full backup, 6 differentials per week.
From what I'm reading the Netgear will recognise the two drives as seperate drives, which causes problems.
I should say this is on a customer's site who have NO idea about anything so anything that requires reconfiguring or even logging in to the web interface is not really ideal.
I do this on WDSENTINEL units without a problem as Windows Storage Server seems to understand what my requirements are but from what I'm reading this will fail on a Netgear device???
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