Backup to Mini-NAS

[fischtbengel]

I forgot to mention: We have no license of a backup software like Symentec and we do not want to buy a license and another server just to copy some shares to external drives.

[fischtbengel]

Nobody out there how can help me?

[symm]

I have setup backup to a removable disk for a client (5 one for each workday)

Just follow the steps for a tape backup and have the removeable disk setup as dynamic disk

setup 5 backup jobs
as long as the proper disk in in the unit the backup will run

this will be cheaper that the buffalo drives

[fischtbengel]

Thanks for your answer.

I´m not 100% sure what you mean. Do you mean that we shall not use an external device at all and should instead use one internal hdd in our open-e system for the backup and take this hdd out of the system after finishing the backup?

[symm]

I am not sure of your setup but
if you have an empty drive bay in your system
you could use it to perform your backups to a single drive
(or one drive for each day of the week)

I have tried this to backup to an external USB (single) drive as well, but have never tried it with a external drive with RAID device like the buffalo mini nas.


My other question is are you trying to back NAS shares or iSCSI Target ?
for NAS this will work

if you are trying to backup iSCSI Target you will need to do something else.
check the forum, there are a lot of posts about it