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acugye
Jun 26, 2017Aspirant
New Red Harddrive not avaialbe for backupo
Hello, I recentyl added a new WDRed 4 TB drive to my 2 bay Ready Nas 102. It shows it to be in good health but it does to seem to be avasilbe for backup. I am using Bvckup2 to move data from my Win...
- Jun 29, 2017
One thing to note: With two separate volumes, you will have to manaully juggle the load between the two. Stephen has recommended doing that over a single RAID0 volume because if a drive goes bad, you'll only lose the data on the one, not both. I agree with that recommendation unless manual space juggling is just out of the question. With multiple computers to back up, you shouldn't have an issue doing the juggling.
acugye
Jun 29, 2017Aspirant
Hello Stephen, Thank you for your time and effort. I now not only underantd the system better i have a fuctioning back up system for the house computers. Thanks again,
Gye
Sandshark
Jun 29, 2017Sensei - Experienced User
One thing to note: With two separate volumes, you will have to manaully juggle the load between the two. Stephen has recommended doing that over a single RAID0 volume because if a drive goes bad, you'll only lose the data on the one, not both. I agree with that recommendation unless manual space juggling is just out of the question. With multiple computers to back up, you shouldn't have an issue doing the juggling.
- acugyeJul 05, 2017Aspirant
Thnks for takng the time to answer. Yes I have split the computers onto thier own drives with Bvakup mananging it for me. Thanks again Gye
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