Soldato
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Hi guys
Hopefully someone will know the answer to this, I asked in the Synology forum but several days and no replies later I'm giving up with that!
I have a DS410 with x4 2TB HDDs in it in a RAID 10 setup to give me almost 4TB of usable storage.
I would like to back that up to x2 2TB HDDs connected via USB2 using Icyboxes for a local backup.
However I am unsure of the correct way of doing it, I have looked at the wiki which seems to be outdated and doesn't talk about DSM3.1.
Can I just tell it to backup and it will automatically put files and folders where it needs to across both disks or do I need to tell it to put folder A on disk 1 and folder B on disk 2 etc.?
That would be a pain as some folders are going to be very large (1+ TB) so if it won't finish backing up because backup drive A is full and it won't automatically carry on filling up drive B would be a real issue.
I don't want anything fiddily on the ext HDDs - simply formatted in NTFS (I know this will cause a slower transfer speed) so I can access them easily in Windows in case the NAS goes down.
Finally I would like the NAS to sync to the HDDs and delete the data off them if it's been deleted from the NAS, I will set it updating each night.
Thanks very much in advance for any responses.
Hopefully someone will know the answer to this, I asked in the Synology forum but several days and no replies later I'm giving up with that!
I have a DS410 with x4 2TB HDDs in it in a RAID 10 setup to give me almost 4TB of usable storage.
I would like to back that up to x2 2TB HDDs connected via USB2 using Icyboxes for a local backup.
However I am unsure of the correct way of doing it, I have looked at the wiki which seems to be outdated and doesn't talk about DSM3.1.
Can I just tell it to backup and it will automatically put files and folders where it needs to across both disks or do I need to tell it to put folder A on disk 1 and folder B on disk 2 etc.?
That would be a pain as some folders are going to be very large (1+ TB) so if it won't finish backing up because backup drive A is full and it won't automatically carry on filling up drive B would be a real issue.
I don't want anything fiddily on the ext HDDs - simply formatted in NTFS (I know this will cause a slower transfer speed) so I can access them easily in Windows in case the NAS goes down.
Finally I would like the NAS to sync to the HDDs and delete the data off them if it's been deleted from the NAS, I will set it updating each night.
Thanks very much in advance for any responses.
