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Faster restore option: USB 2.0 or Gigabit E?
Hi, I have a regular NV, and was running a single 2TB HDD. That drive took a crap, and I need to restore with a brand new drive. I have about 700GB of FLAC files, and a couple of shares of odds a...
I'd go with a backup over ethernet.
What filesystem is on your backup drive? If it's not a native Linux filesystem (e.g. EXT3) performance could well be quite slow if you restore from a USB disk directly connected to the ReadyNAS.
Directly connecting the USB disk to the NAS would have the advantage that you could run a Frontview backup job to restore the data and not have to worry about leaving a desktop computer on to copy the files back.
What filesystem is on your backup drive? If it's not a native Linux filesystem (e.g. EXT3) performance could well be quite slow if you restore from a USB disk directly connected to the ReadyNAS.
Directly connecting the USB disk to the NAS would have the advantage that you could run a Frontview backup job to restore the data and not have to worry about leaving a desktop computer on to copy the files back.
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