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NAS-to-NAS network backup? That won't do stupid things?
I recently experienced my first HD failure since switching to a NAS (Duo v1) and wired/wireless network for file storage three years ago. My backup regime included a direct USB link to an external HD...
Hi all, just to clarify what happened.
I was using a a mac-native third-party backup software to run my backups NAS duo v1 > desktop HDD over the network. My NAS had only one HD. I began having network connection drops to both PC and Mac clients, which I had never experienced before, simultaneous with the error count on the HDD shooting way up (so I can't see how the events were not connected). In one of those drops the mac backup software seems to have erased the backup on my desktop HDD. No data on the NAS itself was erased.
I sent my logs to the backup software developer who could not find an explanation and claimed the problem should not have happened (yet it did).The other backups that I rain through the Frontview rsync interface to an external HDD were fine and I'm lucky I kept up with those.
It has been a long time since I got my duo so I used the opportunity to invest in second NAS and I now run backups from there to the duo using frontview's rsync client. I am still looking for another third-party software to supplement this.
mdgm: thanks for the instructions on restoring backups, incredibly obvious but I hadn't thought of it.
I was using a a mac-native third-party backup software to run my backups NAS duo v1 > desktop HDD over the network. My NAS had only one HD. I began having network connection drops to both PC and Mac clients, which I had never experienced before, simultaneous with the error count on the HDD shooting way up (so I can't see how the events were not connected). In one of those drops the mac backup software seems to have erased the backup on my desktop HDD. No data on the NAS itself was erased.
I sent my logs to the backup software developer who could not find an explanation and claimed the problem should not have happened (yet it did).The other backups that I rain through the Frontview rsync interface to an external HDD were fine and I'm lucky I kept up with those.
It has been a long time since I got my duo so I used the opportunity to invest in second NAS and I now run backups from there to the duo using frontview's rsync client. I am still looking for another third-party software to supplement this.
mdgm: thanks for the instructions on restoring backups, incredibly obvious but I hadn't thought of it.
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