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Title: Using "Scheduled Download" Feature To Backup Another DNS-323?
Post by: scottgurney on August 02, 2011, 02:58:48 PM

Is there anyone using the DNS-323's "Scheduled Download" feature to backup another DNS-323?  (If so, how?)

I'm having considerable difficulty with this.  In a nutshell, I have one DNS-323 (call it "NAS0") with two 500 MB drives in a RAID 1 configuration.  The second DNS-323 (call it "NAS1") has two 1 TB drives in a RAID 1 configuration.  All I want to do is FTP all the files from NAS0 to NAS1.  The FTP server is running successfully on NAS0 and I have created a NAS0 FTP account with Read permissions on the whole volume. 

Using NAS1, I scheduled a "Folder" download.  This is using the FTP user created on NAS0.   The "test" button is successful.  At the specified time, the download starts and the files begin to download.  The problem is, it never finishes.  The "Progress" is always 0% and the "Status" is always the down arrow, i.e. "The file is downloading". 

Both DNS-323's are running firmware version 1.09.

Title: Re: Using "Scheduled Download" Feature To Backup Another DNS-323?
Post by: jhtopping on August 02, 2011, 07:07:26 PM

Have you tried testing with smaller folders first to ensure that everything works?  Obviously small folders provide faster results.  As you increase the size of the folder, you can get a better feeling if the size is causing the process choke.

I believe I started testing this approach and it worked.  The reason I stopped  was because the rsync program was better and did not copy files that had not changed on NAS0.