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Help swapping "dead" drive? [Case #15693780]
Hey all, I have an NV+ that is about 2 months old. I fired it up and loaded it with all of our data, backed up all files from PC's etc...it has 4 x 2TB WD Green Caviar drives at this point. All is wel...
I would get back with tech support. It is extremely unusual for a slot to go bad, but hardware failure is not impossible.
To answer your question about backups. For a long time when I only had a relatively small amount of data on my NV+, I used to backup using Windows copy/paste to a USB drive attached to my wired PC. I did this on a routine basis. That was not the fastest process, and later I put an 2TB drive in my desktop and backed up to it. I use my NAS more as a server.
Eventually that became too much of a time consuming chore as the amount of data and when the NV+ was about three years old, I added an NVX to my network and converted my NV+ to a backup target. Once I had the initial backup done, I converted the backup jobs to rsync and it only take minutes every night now starting at midnight. As I have over 1.5TB of data now, manual copy/paste is no longer an option.
When backing up NAS to NAS, rsync is the way to go as the incremental is really only the changed portions of a file, not the entire file. It synchronized the data between the two units and as only the changes are copied over, it is very fast. (Warning don't use rsync for the initial backup for the checking/verification process takes forever when copying data the first time).
To answer your question about backups. For a long time when I only had a relatively small amount of data on my NV+, I used to backup using Windows copy/paste to a USB drive attached to my wired PC. I did this on a routine basis. That was not the fastest process, and later I put an 2TB drive in my desktop and backed up to it. I use my NAS more as a server.
Eventually that became too much of a time consuming chore as the amount of data and when the NV+ was about three years old, I added an NVX to my network and converted my NV+ to a backup target. Once I had the initial backup done, I converted the backup jobs to rsync and it only take minutes every night now starting at midnight. As I have over 1.5TB of data now, manual copy/paste is no longer an option.
When backing up NAS to NAS, rsync is the way to go as the incremental is really only the changed portions of a file, not the entire file. It synchronized the data between the two units and as only the changes are copied over, it is very fast. (Warning don't use rsync for the initial backup for the checking/verification process takes forever when copying data the first time).
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