Back Up
Posted by: Freightliner Mark on 02 December 2013
Hello All,
I have ripped about 3000 CDs to my QNAP to play through my NDS.
As a back up, i bought an External HD to copy these rips to, but so many won't move as the message says that the path won't allow due to the titles / track titles being too long.
Has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to solve this?
Thanks
Freightliner Mark
Format the drive you are copying to as something other than FAT.
Presumably you have connected the drive to the qnap directly, this is the best method as you are not causing a lot of network overhead to copy down to your computer
Format the drive you are copying to as something other than FAT.
Presumably you have connected the drive to the qnap directly, this is the best method as you are not causing a lot of network overhead to copy down to your computer
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup my nas to a usb drive connected to the nas. Does that mean that the files travel from the nas, to my mac, and then to the usb drive? I've pondered that.
I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup my nas to a usb drive connected to the nas. Does that mean that the files travel from the nas, to my mac, and then to the usb drive? I've pondered that.
My ReadyNas Duo will do an automatic backup by itself. I make use of this to copy my music and pictures from one disk to the other. I would expect the Qnap to have a similar facility!
Where does the ReadyNAS back up to Michael?
Where does the ReadyNAS back up to Michael?
It will copy between any two directories that the NAS can see. So one of my backup jobs copies from a directory on one NAS drive to a directory on the other drive. Another backup job actually takes data from my Linux PVR and copies it to my NAS.
Thanks Michael. I'm on the same page now.
I think the OP revolves around backing up the NAS to an external device. They all do it and we should all use it. I'm still configuring my QNap 410 after FW upgrade and volume expansion so I'm betwixt and cannot contribute meaningfully past saying that up until last week the copy to USB facility worked no matter what I threw at it. And it's just as well it did, because in a moment of characteristic stupidity I deleted a share. Past the time it took to restore it (perfectly) from the USB drive, it was of no consequence.
I've had one ReadyNAS Duo box go pop on me which is why I moved to another make. It took both discs with it but I had a USB copy so it was a recoverable disaster.
Sounds nasty, were the disks totally dead or was it just that you could not easily read them?
As Gary say reformat your target drive into something like NTFS or even possibly FAT32 and you shouldn't have issues with directory length or file name length.
i use a ReadyNAS as one of my NAS's and use it's internal automated back up to incrementally backup over the network to another NAS using FTP. It works really well and it's seamless.. And if something happens untoward, like it did once when the remote NAS was accidentally powered off, the ReadyNAS emails me to let me know.. very confidence building.
Two dead discs. Unlucky but it does put you off.