Several hundred CD's into my ripping marathon I started getting nervous about backup (I diidn't have one).
I was ripping (using a unitiserve SSD) to a brand new 2 TB WD Green in a high spec tower PC, but I thought it may be a better idea to have a NAS as my main repository so I bought a Synology DS212j with 2 3TB WD Reds and transferred my library to that.
I thought it would be a simple matter to have the music folder on my new NAS automatically sync to my PC but the NAS seems to want to do backups to rather than from it.
I tried rsync using Deltacopy server on my PC. This copies almost everything and then fails with unspecified security issues that I can't be arsed to find, especially as it doesn't seem to be able to cope with Unicode filenames.
Has anyone found a reliable way of syncing a folder from a Synology NAS to a PC folder quickly and reliably ?
Considering going back to using the PC as the library and the NAS as the backup (which means I could have saved a bunch of cash and just getting a cheap USB drive).
Posted on: 17 February 2013 by jbua5150
Look at allway sync. Works great for my pc to nas backups. Fully configureable. Although I cannot get it to work automatically, I just manually run the program to sync.
Posted on: 17 February 2013 by MangoMonkey
I use microsoft synctoy. You can basically point it at two folders and ask it to sync them. It supports various options: 1 way, 2 way, etc.
Here's my workflow:
I rip a CD to my PC using dbPowerAmp.
I run synctoy. This copies the new files over to my NAS.
Done.
The 'backup' is the PC. I realized that the NAS can't be necessarily considered a backup when it fell off the shelf that I had it on and the hard drives broke.
Posted on: 17 February 2013 by Minky
Thanks Shivoham,
Sounds like a good solution but the reason I spent the extra money on the unitiserve is that you just chuck the CD's in and it does the rest.
I've given up on using the NAS as my music store. I'm going to use my PC, which has a much faster processor and is on all the time anyway and I'll use the NAS as the backup.
The Synology "Replicator" is utter rubbish so I'll schedule Synctoy or Robocopy to sync my music repository to the NAS once a day.
Posted on: 17 February 2013 by Claus-Thoegersen
You can run as many backup jobs from the Unityserve as you want to, so simply create another backup job that will backup to your pc, problem solved. That is create a share on the pc set it to a backup store and create the backup job.
Posted on: 18 February 2013 by Minky
Claus, one of the other reasons I splashed out on the Unitiserve was that I was told by Naim that it would manage the backup process but after buying it (and the NAS) and trying to set up the backup part and not being able to get it working I was then told that the SSD Unitiserve (which I was also advised to go for by Naim) didn't actually do backups.
