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My wireless router comes with a USB connector which allows me to plug an external hard drive in and it'll act as a Network Attached Storage. The problem is that I want to backup this hard-drive to the external drive of another computer so that if the NAS drive fails, I don't lose everything.
However, Windows 7 Backup refuses to include the NAS as a location to backup. I can't fool it by mapping it to a drive letter either. Google presents lots of pages on how to backup files to a NAS, but not the other way around.
Can anyone advise me on free software which can do incremental backups of a NAS drive to an external drive attached the computer it is running on? I'm aware of this question but the top answers have one or more of the following issues:
- They aren't free.
- The free version cannot backup a NAS.
- They cannot do incremental backups.
- They're just a script and therefore have limited other functionality (eg. disk space management, scheduling, compression, etc.etc.)
Richard
Posted 2011-01-17T17:35:23.357
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I didn't see anything on the website or documentation detailing backing up a NAS to a local disk - however it sounds like I may have overlooked it. Will look again, thanks. – Richard – 2011-01-18T12:06:46.017
@Richard - it can do pretty much anything - ftp/windows shares and more, so you can backup to a NAS anyway you want! //nasname, map to a drive or more... – William Hilsum – 2011-01-18T13:44:53.563