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ezlotogura
Nov 15, 2014Aspirant
Help backing up to HD attached to PC
In another thread I was advised to back up my NAS to an external HD and then reformat my NAS. In the past I've attached a USB drive directly to the NAS for backups, and its slow. It was suggested ...
StephenB
Nov 15, 2014Guru - Experienced User
You don't have to use frontview backup or PC, you can also access the shares directly on the mac/pc and copy them. In the case of a windows PC, teracopy is useful because it verifies. I use robocopy, because it is capable of incremental backup. There are similar utilities for the mac.
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