Question Good free way to backup data onto a nas.

[NightHawkRMX]

Hello, I just got my NAS complete and hopefully will run for more than a day before going offline like last time.

Specs:
Intel Pentium N3530 Quad Core
8gb DDR3
HP S700 120GB SATA III SSD set as Windows Storage share because I couldn't figure out how to make it a cache drive for the HDD.
Seagate Barracuda 2tb SATAIII 7200RPM HDD set a backup share in Windows.
FreeNAS-11.1-U7 installed onto an ancient PNY 8gb SataII USB stick.

The 2TB drive is powered externally and plugged into the laptop's optical drive slimline connector using a modified SATA data cable, but it works. Kind of funny the bios says [ODD: Seagate 2TB]

Finally, as many times as I have heard USAFRet drill it into peoples heads, I want a solution to backup all of the files on the PCs in my house automatically.

As most of the PCs in my house have 1 or 2 small SSDs, the 2TB should be enough in theory. I'm not ready to buy another drive either.
What is a free and easy to use program that can do this?

 

[USAFRet]

wifi cars is plugged into usb3

both drives in nas are installed using a sata cable but are limited to sata2 by
motherboard.

nas is using ethernet directly into router.

The WiFi is probably the issue.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

It finished in 8:24:48. Ouch.

It says read was 0.9gb/s and read was 86.6mb/s.
My internet speed is acting odd your right. 3.6mb down and 5.55 up. Its usually 120 down and higher up.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

I just rebooted PC. Internet is 121 down and 5 up.
Much better.

 

[USAFRet]

Regarding nightly backups and time.

My C drive just ran its nightly Incremental to the NAS box, starting at 12:01.
3 mins 8 sec, 3.1GB.

That 3.1GB is the amount of data that changed between last night and tonight, on that drive.
The other drives will run at 0200, 0300, etc...

 

[NightHawkRMX]

So you leave all of your pcs on overnight?.

Ill have to remember to do that.

 

[USAFRet]

So you leave all of your pcs on overnight?.

Ill have to remember to do that.

My 3 main ones, yes. Mine, wife, HTPC (usually).

That costs a calculated $100/year to do.
Bonus: Boot time is reduced to zero.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Windows decided to be a pain again.

It won't let me access my backup drive and says apparently 2 shares on 1 server isnt allowed for some reason.

Why did it suddenly do this?

https://imgur.com/2WuqZlB

View: https://imgur.com/2WuqZlB

 

[NightHawkRMX]

The web interface says the 2tb drive and share are still up.

I removed the 120gb share and it let me connect to the 2tb again

 

[mattDelargeXL]

Hi all,
It's possible to plug a USB 3.0 hub into my Tesla and power up my iPhone 8 and my iPad 3gen without breaking anything?

In advance, thank you so much.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Hi all,
It's possible to plug a USB 3.0 hub into my Tesla and power up my iPhone 8 and my iPad 3gen without breaking anything?

In advance, thank you so much.

Create a thread for this.

 

[Alabalcho]

Hi all,
It's possible to plug a USB 3.0 hub into my Tesla and power up my iPhone 8 and my iPad 3gen without breaking anything? In advance, thank you so much.

Why you'd need an USB hub? Are you short of USB ports or power sockets?
You should check your car' USB port power requirements, such big hungry devices could be too much for a single port.