Backing up a NAS to my local computer?

[itakey]

I have a QNAP Nas running a Raid 1 setup and I'm starting to put more and more onto my NAS. While it is redundant, I'd also like to do a local backup to my computer. Anyone know of a way to backup a network or mapped drive in Windows?

I use Macrium Reflect and Acronis for drive backups, but those will only let you backup TO the NAS, but will not let you back up the actual NAS drive to the local machine.

Anyone have a solution?

I think I may be able to put an external drive directly onto the nas and do a backup that way, but I haven't explored that yet.

 

[Red Squirrel]

In Linux there's rsync. For Windows there's syncback, which is similar idea but with GUI front end.

Been years since I used it so not sure how good it is now but worth trying:

http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/index.html

You can then schedule a job to run nightly to backup to a separate drive. I would also look into a cold backup solution like external drives that are turned off most of the time.

 

[nk215]

I have a QNAP Nas running a Raid 1 setup and I'm starting to put more and more onto my NAS. While it is redundant, I'd also like to do a local backup to my computer. Anyone know of a way to backup a network or mapped drive in Windows?

I use Macrium Reflect and Acronis for drive backups, but those will only let you backup TO the NAS, but will not let you back up the actual NAS drive to the local machine.

Anyone have a solution?

I think I may be able to put an external drive directly onto the nas and do a backup that way, but I haven't explored that yet.

Cobian backup is a free software that can run as a service so that you don't have to log onto your windows machine for the machine to backup the NAS.

Your NAS should be able backup itself to an external HDD connected to the NAS via USB.