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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-320 => Topic started by: lordradish on March 17, 2014, 07:19:05 AM
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I've looked through the forums for a solution on this, and I followed some of the suggestions to no avail...
I'm trying to backup some folders from my PC to a drive on my DNS-320.
The backup setting is LAN Backup, and folder is selected in the dropdown. Anonymous. I'm trying to back up my pictures folder on my E: drive (windows 8).
In the url, I have what I think is the right address, based on what I read, but when I test, here's what I get (I x'ed out the last 2 numbers of my IP add before pasting):
URL \\192.168.0.1xx\E\Pictures
Test Result Fail
File Size Unavailable
What am I doing wrong? I don't want to have to buy backup software if this is already built in. I even tried mapping it as a network drive.
Thanks!
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Get a copy of HoverIP off the net and use it to find the IP of the computer you have your files on. If the IP is from a DHCP server in your router you may not have the same IP for the PC every time.
Since I and my staff have no experience with win 8 I can't advise you what to do but I would think the simple way would be to just copy your pictures folder to the NAS. Here we use a simple Rexx script to do the daily backup from the computers to the various NAS boxes run as a cron job
One of our clients with a win 7 laptop uses a batch file to backup 2 directories to his DNS-320 based on the information about the NAS taken from Network Places (in his case 'Volume_1 on DNS-320 (Dlink-xxxxxx)' with the xxxxxx being assigned by the NAS). Assuming win 8 has Network Places then open Entire Network and find your DNS-320, open Volume_1 and copy your Pictures directory by drag and drop.
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I'll look into that, I was hoping to have something that did incremental backups so I didn't have to copy/paste. Thanks.
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If you need to do full incremental backups you should be using RSYNC. Unfortunately that is not part of the DNS-320 firmware or applications but it is available iy you use FunPlug.
There is a way to use RSYNC without installing FunPlug but it does require either a separate partition or an additional hard disk. With the additional hard disk it also automatically gives you a backup. To use it you install RSYNC on your PC and use it to backup what you want to the additional drive, then you use a simple copy command to copy the contents of that drive to the NAS. We have a client that has used this method to backup their accounts daily for the last 3 years without any problems, in fact my service manager recommended it because it saves the client having to remember to make a separate backup.