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 Lujack Dhrakoth |
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Posts: 486 05-12-08 8:11 PM |
I cant seem to get any of my backup applications to allow me to back up my new NAS drive...any suggestions on what to use?
None of them will let me pick that drive, either as an address or a mapped drive. |
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creac |
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Posts: 2121 05-13-08 4:30 PM Mortal Wombat |
What operating system are you using? Vista's native backup is pretty simple and effective these days, for example.
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 zeist prexus |
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Posts: 1198 05-13-08 6:29 PM |
None of them will let me pick that drive, either as an address or a mapped drive.Like you can't see the drive or it fails after you select it? It sounds like either a network problem or maybe a problem with permissions on the drive. Does the NAS device itself come with any kind of backup software? Maybe it doesn't want you to write to it and instead it wants to do the backup job itself by default. As far as software, it kind of depends on what you want to do. Personally, I would go with something that can image the drives to the NAS if you are trying to keep your systems up and running as much as possible. Then just load the image in place if any of your systems need a reinstall. I think software like Ghost can do this as a differential backup, so every time the job is scheduled your entire drive won't need to be imaged again. It will just do whatever bit has changed. For backup of just certain files or directories, you can use whatever... SyncToy or rsync or even something like a batch file that calls robocopy/xcopy probably. |
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Lujack Dhrakoth |
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Posts: 486 05-24-08 11:43 AM |
When the bacup software pops up with a list of available items to backup, the NAS drive is not one of them.
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Gandol teh Pirate |
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Posts: 2265 05-24-08 4:25 PM Time-traveling
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Does the NAS show up in Explorer as a mapped drive?
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Posts: 2383 05-25-08 1:52 AM |
Does your backup software support NAS attached storage?
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Lujack Dhrakoth |
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Posts: 486 05-27-08 10:55 AM |
Yes, its a mapped drive. The software I was using, allowed me to backup my laptops document directory that was mapped on my main.
So I was really suprised I couldnt backup the NAS. |
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Gandol teh Pirate |
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Posts: 2265 05-27-08 3:42 PM Time-traveling
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Man it's been a long time since I saw this problem, but what you're describing is a problem where most software won't execute backups of any
remotely attached device without making you pay for a "professional" or "enterprise" version of the software. I'll try my Nero SW later
and see if I can use it to back up a remote drive later this week.
Zarr's contextualized position on slavery:
For a humorous example, I sold myself as a slave at a charity auction once. I ended up spending the day chopping wood at a farm. It's slavery, but it's far from immoral. |
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Aielman KajiraLiege |
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Posts: 4606 05-28-08 5:45 AM |
Gandol teh Pirate wrote: That's probably it there. Most backup software is designed to work on local drives only unless you have enterprise class software. There really hasn't been much need to change that until recently as NAS devices were prohibitively expensive for home use until just a few years ago. peace, Aielman "There are no stupid questions...but there certainly are a LOT of inquisitive idiots" Husband, Father, Squisher of bugs.
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Gandol teh Pirate |
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Posts: 2265 05-29-08 11:29 AM Time-traveling
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Throw me some kudos, biatch!
Zarr's contextualized position on slavery:
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zeist prexus |
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Posts: 1198 05-29-08 6:26 PM |
If you map the network share as a drive, how would the software even know?
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Aielman KajiraLiege |
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Posts: 4606 05-30-08 11:59 AM |
zeist prexus wrote: Because a mapped drive is just a virtual stub in the disk subsystem, not an actual drive. When a program makes a call to the disk it's taking a different path through TCP/IP to the mapped drive then it takes through the disk subsystem locally. Some calls cannot be made via TCP/IP. Typically, software like backup software is trying to access hardware directly through the abstraction layer, and the OS won't allow those calls to be made through a TCP/IP connect. It's a security measure to make sure your hardware can't get hacked. You have the same problem with the installation of some programs, which require the setup files to be local. In order to attach to remote storage, it usually requires a remote agent, which you can't do with most NAS because the OS on them is rudimentary and you can't install to it. So what ends up happening is that you need to get a software that is designed to make the right calls to allow you to use the NAS with it. I use Backup Exec 12, but I can get it from work free, and I wouldn't recommend it otherwise unless you have lottery funds burning a hole in your pocket. But there is other reasonable software out there. I think Symantec has some new Ghost products that will recognize a nas. peace, Aielman "There are no stupid questions...but there certainly are a LOT of inquisitive idiots" Husband, Father, Squisher of bugs.
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Posts: 1869 05-30-08 1:39 PM |
I had a similar issue with rev drives using windows system backup. The problem wasn't what Gandol described, but that windows saw the rev drives as a cdrom
rather than a writeable disk. Probably not the issue in your case, but I thought I'd mention it.
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