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NAS Scheduled Backups to Windows 10?
I need to backup 3TB of data from my NAS. There are reports that the maximum for attached external drivers for my NV+ is 2 TB. Is there some RSYNC kind of capabilities to schedule a backup to a dri...
sjschmidtky1 wrote:
There are reports that the maximum for attached external drivers for my NV+ is 2 TB.
Yes, that is the case for the NV+ v1 (which run 4.1.x firmware). That is also the max size for the internal drives.
sjschmidtky1 wrote:
What other recommendations are there for scheduled backups from the NAS to a large external drive?
I also haven't seen much here on good versions or rsync for windows.
I think the best approach is not to use a backup job running on the NAS, but instead run the backup on the PC. One free tool you could try is FreeFileSync. Microsoft has an old utility called Robocopy (robust file copy) which would also work - it is built into Windows. It does do incremental backup. However, it does need to be run from the command line.
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