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duo v2 - backing up from NAS to PC
This might be a silly question, but...
With a duo v2 I set up a backup job, firstly it would not connect to an open share on a win7 machine until i created a user account and added that into the backup details, it doesnt like empty fields.
Is this to be expected?
Secondly it will not back up to a folder inside your share folder, is this also expected behaviour? I set up a few shares on my readynas and wanted to back them up to one folder on my win7 machine, so in the shared folder on my win machine i created a folder called films, but i cannot tell the share:films to backup to the folder share\films on the win machine. I had to create a share for films and now it seems to back up OK.
Observation shows that network utilisation is somewhat lower (not horrendous but it is noticable) using the readynas backup tool than robocopy on the win7 machine, I wondered if this is also to be expected, does the backup throttle itself if it needs to? the first jobs will take a while!
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The NAS is my primary datastore. I have an old "repurposed" win7 machine acting as a backup for this NAS. The win7 machine is standard apart from a few drives using drive pooling (drive bender) to show a single disk. The NAS and Win7 are on the same LAN with only a couple of netgear gb switches in between them. The WIn 7 machine is actually in a secure shed in the garden! so a theft/fire/flood etc shouldnt take out both sets of data :D (Famous last words).
readyNAS DUo V2 (single 3tb drive with 2 tb used)
latest firmware (T28)
WIn7 Pro N 32bit (1x2tb and 1x1tb data drives pooled with seperate boot drive)
really critical stuff (photos) is about to be backed up again to crashplan or jungledisk then i should have the bases covered.
Ultimately I want to replace the win7 machine with another NAS, and populate each with 2x3tb drives
John R
With a duo v2 I set up a backup job, firstly it would not connect to an open share on a win7 machine until i created a user account and added that into the backup details, it doesnt like empty fields.
Is this to be expected?
Secondly it will not back up to a folder inside your share folder, is this also expected behaviour? I set up a few shares on my readynas and wanted to back them up to one folder on my win7 machine, so in the shared folder on my win machine i created a folder called films, but i cannot tell the share:films to backup to the folder share\films on the win machine. I had to create a share for films and now it seems to back up OK.
Observation shows that network utilisation is somewhat lower (not horrendous but it is noticable) using the readynas backup tool than robocopy on the win7 machine, I wondered if this is also to be expected, does the backup throttle itself if it needs to? the first jobs will take a while!
info
The NAS is my primary datastore. I have an old "repurposed" win7 machine acting as a backup for this NAS. The win7 machine is standard apart from a few drives using drive pooling (drive bender) to show a single disk. The NAS and Win7 are on the same LAN with only a couple of netgear gb switches in between them. The WIn 7 machine is actually in a secure shed in the garden! so a theft/fire/flood etc shouldnt take out both sets of data :D (Famous last words).
readyNAS DUo V2 (single 3tb drive with 2 tb used)
latest firmware (T28)
WIn7 Pro N 32bit (1x2tb and 1x1tb data drives pooled with seperate boot drive)
really critical stuff (photos) is about to be backed up again to crashplan or jungledisk then i should have the bases covered.
Ultimately I want to replace the win7 machine with another NAS, and populate each with 2x3tb drives
John R
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- As your said, if you add a new backup job ,between Win7 and NAS. You should be create a user accout (user name and password), then you could copy files.
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