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Automatic backup/sync to an external USB drive
I want to have an up-to-date as possible copy of the data on an external drive that I can pull off and use directly from my Windows system. Do any of the ReadyNAS have the ability to automatically sync/backup data to an external NTFS/Fat32 drive?
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- You can schedule a Frontview backup job to a USB drive, but it would have to be FAT32, NTSF or EXT. The USB drives do not support NFS or rsync. In order to use rsync to synchronize the files on your NAS to another device, the other device would have to support it as well. This would limit the other device to an NAS that supports rsync or maybe some Linux boxes. Up to the introduction of the Duo (v2) and NV+ (v2) which use the Marvell processor, all ReadyNAS units did. Not all the competitors boxes do either. Currently the only ReadyNAS devices that do not support rsync are the Duo (v2) and NV+ (v2) and staff is working on adding features, but I don't know when that will be.
My NVX BE (NAS1) backs up all shares nightly to my NVX Pioneer (NAS2) nightly via rsync. I agree that is the best of worlds, but a more expensive option than a USB drive. However, when you get much beyond 1TB of data, it is far more appealing. I quit using USB drives once I got past 200GB of data and long before I upgraded from my older NV+ to the NVX units 18 months ago. PapaBear wrote: The USB drives do not support NFS or rsync.
Have you confused the generic term "sync" as used by the OP with the "rsync" protocol? Also, USB drives can be access via NFS or rsync, just as they can be accessed via other protocols such as CIFS, AFP, FTP etc
@erick.thompson - simple answer is "Yes". ReadyNAS devices support USB drives formatted as FAT32, NTFS or EXT as stated by @PapaBear- My education continues. Of course as I said, I gave up on USB backups years ago.
- Thanks. It is too bad about the rsync, as I am looking at syncing about 2TB of data. The backup option seems like the best approach, and I'll have to live with a unprotected window.
How hard is it to have a linux script run? I could probably work something out there...sphardy wrote: PapaBear wrote: The USB drives do not support NFS or rsync.
Have you confused the generic term "sync" as used by the OP with the "rsync" protocol? Also, USB drives can be access via NFS or rsync, just as they can be accessed via other protocols such as CIFS, AFP, FTP etc
@erick.thompson - simple answer is "Yes". ReadyNAS devices support USB drives formatted as FAT32, NTFS or EXT as stated by @PapaBear
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