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Possible to do continuous bakups/mirroring of a folder?
Hi all,
I bought a Readynas NV+ back in 2007/2008 and ive basicly been using it as an external network drive for backups. Once a week (on a sunday) I will boot it up, type inthe IP into windows, and then copy paste my important files onto the readynas. For whatever reason, its painfully slow (I chalk it up to the oldness of the device?-- but thats besides the question).
Now I just had a catastrophic hardware failure and all my data from the last week is lost, so I've decided I need someway of having the readnas actually contiinuously sync a folder (rather multiple folders) that I designate. So that the instant I make a change to say a word document or a photoshop file, the file gets mirrored on the readynas drives, over the air.
I dont have any of the original software that came with the readynas back when I bought it, as I just have taken this thing around with me between computers, and I just plug it into my router and it works flawlessly as a network drive.
If its not possible to do what im suggesting, does anyone know of a device that can do this?
This is all on a windows 7 PC BTW.
Thanks so much for the help!
I bought a Readynas NV+ back in 2007/2008 and ive basicly been using it as an external network drive for backups. Once a week (on a sunday) I will boot it up, type inthe IP into windows, and then copy paste my important files onto the readynas. For whatever reason, its painfully slow (I chalk it up to the oldness of the device?-- but thats besides the question).
Now I just had a catastrophic hardware failure and all my data from the last week is lost, so I've decided I need someway of having the readnas actually contiinuously sync a folder (rather multiple folders) that I designate. So that the instant I make a change to say a word document or a photoshop file, the file gets mirrored on the readynas drives, over the air.
I dont have any of the original software that came with the readynas back when I bought it, as I just have taken this thing around with me between computers, and I just plug it into my router and it works flawlessly as a network drive.
If its not possible to do what im suggesting, does anyone know of a device that can do this?
This is all on a windows 7 PC BTW.
Thanks so much for the help!
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- Get Windows software to run on your PC that can backup to network drives continuously.
mdgm wrote: Get Windows software to run on your PC that can backup to network drives continuously.
It seems like this is the smart thing to do, any suggestions for something thats very lightweight and can run bug free in the background?- Someone on the forum wrote a program called QuickShadow. Haven't tried that, but it might be worth a try.
There are of course others like Acronis, Memeo, Retrospect etc. that you could use.
Not sure which of these do continuous backups. - Acronis certainly does (I think they call it "non-stop backup").
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