NASLite Network Attached Storage

I have two drives in my NASLite-M2 system. Drive 1 is a 1.5TB drive that I use for backups. Drive 2 is a 320GB drive I use for typical file shares. Other than implementing RAID is there a way that I can protect the data on Drive 2 so it's backed up on Drive 1?

I'd like to avoid backing up over the network from one mapped drive to the other mapped drive if at all possible.

Any idea's?

Thank you.

John

NASlite has a backup named Mirror that is a rsync command. You get to it by telneting to your NASLite in the menu named: "DISK-0 CONFIGURATION MENU" Then pick 9 for "9 - Mirror to Disk-0" Make sure you are doing it the right way else it will delete all on the other hard drive.

-Raymond Day

Beware: using mirror will make the destination drive an exact mirror of the source drive - any files not on the source drive will be deleted from the destination drive.

The internal mirroring feature is just what I need. Because I have different drive sizes I want to mirror folders/shares and not the complete physical disk.

Is there any way to accomplish this?

I don't think that it can.

I have the same question. Can you select certain folders vs the entire disk? If not, what backup method would you suggest if you don't want to do the entire drive? I currently have a Raid 5 1.2TB config, but I'm concerned about losing 2 drives at once. I want a failsafe in case I do, but only want to backup certain folders.

I believe windows has a utility built in that will do this. My advice though is that you back up the data you really want to keep to DVD/RW. These are phase change media, unlike DVDR which is dye based. and last a very long time.

Mike

If you want to just copy folders. You can mount the NASlite drives in Linux so you can do commands. Look at the post I did here on this phpBB Server Elements forum:

http://www.serverelements.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2610

It will tall how to do it. It works very good if you do it right.

I use Ubunutu and you can just run it live on a DVD so it will not install but will let you do the rsync commands.

-Raymond Day

I run a sync application on the client side that syncs folders on a schedule. Seems to be a good work around.