(which is useless bc I want to image whole volume NOT multiple share folders one at a time obviously) Even if I map network drives to share folders it does not show up in snapshot. Issue: With Snapshot at least when it looks for internal drives/external drives to choose for imaging, my NAS does not show up even though it shows in network tree within windows file explorer (I have Win7圆4 Ultimate). Links: Cat7 throughout/ Link Aggregation Inactive Router: D-Link DIR-855 Gigabit / Hardware Ver: A2 / Firmware Ver: 1.23NA HDD: Configuration: RAID 5 = 7.24 TB over 1 volume from 10TBs of raw space. Synology: DS 1511+ - (a 5 bay diskstation) connected via Ethernet I was in a rush and not as specific as I should have been so I apologize. We may be able to find a specific solution for you.įirst thank you for the quick response. Let us know how much data is on the NAS and what software you have been using to do backups. I have two of these in my tower and do all my backups to bare drives that I insert into them. Were it me, I would buy a few bare drives and put them in one of these to do the backup: You will need software that will split the image across drives (almost any modern backup SW will do this) and multiple external drives. Read your manual.įinally, the biggest issue is going to be that you may have more data on that device than will fit on a single backup drive. However, some NAS enclosures will have a USB / FireWire / eSata connection and a Clone function, for instant backup. See how much space is used.Īlso, does the NAS support a direct connection to an external drive? The simplest way to ensure the backup is to attach one or more external drives to your PC and just copy from the drive that represents the NAS. Try this: In Windows, right-click on the drive icon for the NAS and select Properties. Just about any software that would let you back up a single drive in your PC will do this.Īs for how big the backup will be, the size of the storage does not matter. Since the RAID software works so hard to present the array as a single disk, you back it up the way you would a single disk.

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