Best strategy for full NAS backup under 4TB?

StephenB wrote:
It will be fastest to back up the data over a gigabit network to a drive connected to a PC. USB speeds on most ReadyNAS including the Pro line are not great.

Makes sense. Gigabit ethernet speeds are much faster than USB2.

StephenB wrote:
You can back up the entire data volume through frontview. RSYNC is a good protocol for that (run once with NFS, then edit it to use RSYNC). It does require the right software on the PC though.

I'm Mac-based (which is why I need the Time Machine sparsebundles). Looks like there are some Mac OS RSYNC clients. Just to clarify, do I run Frontview NFS backup targeting Mac attached target drive first, then switch to RSYNC? How would I set the drive connected to my Mac as the backup target in Frontview? I've only used Frontview to backup to drives attached directly to the NAS.

dhl wrote:
If you want to run the backup job from the PC, you can access the full data volume over CIFS/SMB using admin credentials. You can use robocopy to copy it.

I can see the root volume when I login as admin over CIFS. I assume I would then backup all the subdirectories. Correct?

If I backup the C directory, will that back up the invisible .timemachine directory inside?

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Thanks for your help!