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Title: Need help configuring ftp.
Post by: inglespat on February 05, 2010, 07:59:46 PM

Hi all,

In a previous post, someone recommended that I do the following..


"if you have a need for backup, in the future you might setup your DNS321 as 'standard' drives instead of RAID, and set the config for ftp such that hard drive2 (volume2) connects to hard drive1 (volume1) every night at 3am and makes a copy of the data."

So, I set my dns321 as standard drives and all of my data is copied back to hard drive1 (volume1). Now, I don't know how to config the ftp as noted above. How do I do that exactly?

Also, drive 1 is mapped on all of the computers on my network. Do I need to map drive2 to all of my computers? (I am guessing not)

Thanks!!

Title: Re: Need help configuring ftp.
Post by: palswim on March 05, 2010, 04:11:16 PM

You could probably use a tool like cron to schedule those ftp backups, though I'd recommend rsync (http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html).  Then you could do a command like

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rsync -a /path/to/source /path/to/destinationAgain, do some research (read the man page) on it before you do anything.

But, no, you don't need to map the second drive to any other computers on your network.  You  would probably even do better to have the second hard drive in a completely different location, but I know that's not necessarily practical.

Title: Re: Need help configuring ftp.
Post by: shahja on April 13, 2010, 07:13:01 AM

Hi,

I have DNS 321, setup behind Linksys 54G router. It is perfectly connected and visible via my network and am able to map drives. Now I have my internet coming from att (netopia) modem/router which has static IP. I have already set port 21 on linksys to forward to the internal IP of dns 321 (192.168.1.240), however i am unable to connect via ftp. If I plug the DNS 321 behind att modem/router and assign a static IP then I am easily able to connect via ftp, but then I do not have the local mapped drive. Please advise how do I get the ftp connected in first case with IP ending in 240
Thanks & Regards


Jigar

Title: Re: Need help configuring ftp.
Post by: D-Link Multimedia on April 13, 2010, 07:16:05 AM

Your network configuration sounds like you have two networks running. If your netopia modem/router is doing NAT and your linksys is then you are double NATing which doesn't work well for port forwarding. Is your Linksys WAN/Internet IP your modems Public IP address or is it an internal one like 192.168.X.X.