Cobian backup or something else to copy to NAS?

SimonC

SimonC

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I've been just dragging and dropping to my NAS inside windows for folders, and using the upload function within the Synology software for files (as it won't upload folders it just opens them :confused:)

And that's been working okay for me, as it's just photos and video that I take, that once I sort through and edit, I upload straight after.


Another house member had a PC with a second HDD in it, so backed up to that, but he has a laptop and has far more files that need backing up.


Installed Crashplan free, but then realised that you can't back up to a NAS, I've read about the workaround, been read a few people saying it fails half way through the backup.


I've just had a quick test of Cobian and it looks good and worked fine, but was wondering if there's anything better out of interest.


TIA. :)
 
I've never installed any software to use my NAS (Synology)

I created shares on it, so I access them by going to..


Start, run (or any explorer window)

Typing this in..

\\nas\sharename (My nas is called 'nas')

Then I can copy files to it, like basic file sharing.


A great tool for copying files to your nas is robocopy..



I've created a bat file with the folllowing in it.

robocoy /MIR "C:\source folder" "\\nas\destination folder"
 
Thanks Bledd.

Assuming it's the same thing, I have shortcuts to my music, photo and video folders to the NAS on my desktop, and yer that's how I copy files over.


Heard about robocopy loads of times, never used it myself, but will look into it.
Guess I can just create a bat file for each folder that I want to backup, then schedule it in task manager to run ?
 
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