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Title: External Back-Up
Post by: Sherlock on July 08, 2009, 08:30:44 AM

My 323 currently has two 320G Samsung drives in RAID 1 configuration.  I don't use a lot of media files (HD or otherwise) but most of my files are important enough that I'm considering backing them up to an external drive.  How can I go about this?  I read somewhere that I cannot connect the external drive to the USB port of my 323.  What software should I use?  Appreciate your help to this newbie question.  Thanks.

Title: Re: External Back-Up
Post by: ECF on July 08, 2009, 10:59:11 AM

Just connect the external USB drive to the USB port on your PC and copy the data over.

Title: Re: External Back-Up
Post by: Sherlock on July 11, 2009, 10:26:33 PM

Thanks.  But is there a way to do a back-up to an external drive without switching on my PC?

Title: Re: External Back-Up
Post by: ttmcmurry on July 12, 2009, 08:34:22 PM

ECF already said the best, easiest, quickest, and most viable solution. 

If you find a faster one (i.e. took less time to do it than to wait for a forum response), let me know cause I would be highly interested in adding that solution to my bag-o-tricks.

Title: Re: External Back-Up
Post by: tiger6493 on July 18, 2009, 07:42:15 AM

The backup via network may load the network and more time consume.  For big data copy, I remove the drive out from DNS-323 box, mount it in USB HDD dock.  Then copy out the data to external disk with windows explorer installed the ext2 driver.

you can try the driver, free download at http://www.fs-driver.org/.  The tool is quite cool, have to try.

Title: Re: External Back-Up
Post by: fordem on July 18, 2009, 08:05:12 AM

Quote from: tiger6493 on July 18, 2009, 07:42:15 AM

The backup via network may load the network and more time consume.  For big data copy, I remove the drive out from DNS-323 box, mount it in USB HDD dock.  Then copy out the data to external disk with windows explorer installed the ext2 driver.

you can try the driver, free download at http://www.fs-driver.org/.  The tool is quite cool, have to try.

If you constantly remove & reinstall the drives in the DNS-323, you will, at some point create problems for youself - you're operating outside of the expected "envelope".