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Backup to USB: extrememly slow.
I have about 500Gb of data on a share on my ReadyNAS Duo, which I set up to be backed up to an external USB drive. The drive is formatted NTFS, and is USB2, so I was not expecting great performance (...
Thanks for the welcome!
So I'm out of luck with the external USB drive backups.
The data in question is actually a backup of some other stuff off some servers on the network. A task on one of the servers writes all the data to the NAS on a daily basis. The reason I wanted the NAS to then copy that to the external drive, was to implement off-site backups. I suppose that changing the original task on the server to write to the NAS's external USB share would slow that task down to 2 weeks at a time.
The reason I wanted the USB drive to hang off the NAS is because the off-siting should be as automatic as possible, and performed on a rota by various members of staff - I don't want people to have to mess around with PCs and manually copying files, particularly as some of them are not very technical (having to press [backup] for 10 seconds before pulling the drive off is as far as I would stretch them!).
- Y.
So I'm out of luck with the external USB drive backups.
The data in question is actually a backup of some other stuff off some servers on the network. A task on one of the servers writes all the data to the NAS on a daily basis. The reason I wanted the NAS to then copy that to the external drive, was to implement off-site backups. I suppose that changing the original task on the server to write to the NAS's external USB share would slow that task down to 2 weeks at a time.
The reason I wanted the USB drive to hang off the NAS is because the off-siting should be as automatic as possible, and performed on a rota by various members of staff - I don't want people to have to mess around with PCs and manually copying files, particularly as some of them are not very technical (having to press [backup] for 10 seconds before pulling the drive off is as far as I would stretch them!).
- Y.
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