Buffalo pro backup software
Posted by: Dungassin on 01 August 2010
I decided that Memeo backup as supplied with the Buffalo Pro NAS is inadequate, and have tracked down the following :
http://www.gfi.com/backup-hm
This is free, easier to use than Memeo and seems to have better options.
http://www.gfi.com/backup-hm
This is free, easier to use than Memeo and seems to have better options.
quote:Just to clarify, this is software for backing-up your (Windows) computer to the Buffalo isn't it? Not for backing the Buffalo up to another disk/device.
Works fine for either purpose. And as I say - free
Currently using it just to backup from laptop to external drives (including the Buffalo). When the time comes (hopefully for my birthday) I will get the Unitiserve and then use it to backup my NAS music files to another drive.
quote:Originally posted by Dungassin:quote:Just to clarify, this is software for backing-up your (Windows) computer to the Buffalo isn't it? Not for backing the Buffalo up to another disk/device.
Works fine for either purpose. And as I say - free
Currently using it just to backup from laptop to external drives (including the Buffalo). When the time comes (hopefully for my birthday) I will get the Unitiserve and then use it to backup my NAS music files to another drive.
I'm not sure on the facilities available with the Buffalo NAS devices, but if possible you may want to attach a USB drive direct tot he NAS and run the backup directly - I know this is possible with Netgear devices. This way the NAS can write direct to the USB drive rather than everything having to be transfered via your network which will (probably) be considerably slower.
quote:it is easy enough to reformat your back up drives to fat32.
But I don't want to.
Good for you.
My USB hard drives are all NTFS, although to be honest I cannot recall whether they were delivered in that format or whether I changed them.
I enclose the following bit of info wikianswers, which suggests to me that I might have problems formatting my 500GB USB drives to FAT32 as one partition using Windows Vista :
The maximum disk size is approximately 8 terabytes when you take into account the following variables: The maximum possible number of clusters on a FAT32 volume is 268,435,445, and there is a maximum of 32 KB per cluster, along with the space required for the file allocation table (FAT).
You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup. If you need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it. Another option is to start from a Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Startup disk and use the Format tool included on the disk.
My drives already have at least 250GB on each of them. Reformatting and recopying the data means a LOT of time, hence my unwillingness to do it.
Why Buffalo etc have restricted themselves to FAT32 for this purpose I do not know.
I've already decided that should I get my Unitiserve SSD, I will also get a second NAS drive for the backup of music files, so the above is probably not really relevant anymore. Alternatively I will just get another USB drive and format that to FAT32 if it doesn't come in that format - assuming, of course, that I can format as a single partition of 2TB.
My USB hard drives are all NTFS, although to be honest I cannot recall whether they were delivered in that format or whether I changed them.
I enclose the following bit of info wikianswers, which suggests to me that I might have problems formatting my 500GB USB drives to FAT32 as one partition using Windows Vista :
The maximum disk size is approximately 8 terabytes when you take into account the following variables: The maximum possible number of clusters on a FAT32 volume is 268,435,445, and there is a maximum of 32 KB per cluster, along with the space required for the file allocation table (FAT).
You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup. If you need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it. Another option is to start from a Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Startup disk and use the Format tool included on the disk.
My drives already have at least 250GB on each of them. Reformatting and recopying the data means a LOT of time, hence my unwillingness to do it.
Why Buffalo etc have restricted themselves to FAT32 for this purpose I do not know.
I've already decided that should I get my Unitiserve SSD, I will also get a second NAS drive for the backup of music files, so the above is probably not really relevant anymore. Alternatively I will just get another USB drive and format that to FAT32 if it doesn't come in that format - assuming, of course, that I can format as a single partition of 2TB.