Unitiserve Back Up
Posted by: Camlan on 19 August 2014
Some advice please folks if I may.
I think I need to back up my Unitiserve as I would be more than devastated if I had to go through the mind numbing process of ripping my CDs again. Accordingly I think I need to get a NAS but all this will need to do is act as a backup and nothing else so I don't really see the point of getting anything too sophisticated or expensive.
Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
You're right that you want a nas for this, as the uServe wants to back up to a networked location.
You could try a Western Digital My Cloud; it got a very good review from CNet, and it's at the inexpensive end of the spectrum. The 2 tb My Cloud is $149 on Amazon here in the States. I'd probably try that before something next up in complexity such as a Synology 213j.
I automatically switch my NAS on at a set time and then set the back up to run at the same time each week.
I've got another USB hard drive for a 2nd copy just in case lightning ever should strike twice....
My NAS is also nothing fancy, a QNAP TS119.
I know some do not get on too well with QNAP, but works ok for me.
Good luck Camlan.
I tried a WD My Cloud thingy for this very function, and it was awful. I now have a proper NAS - a Synology 213j with twin WD Red drives in raid configuration, and it works beautifully. It cost about £400, but was money well spent in my view.
I tried a WD My Cloud thingy for this very function, and it was awful. I now have a proper NAS - a Synology 213j with twin WD Red drives in raid configuration, and it works beautifully. It cost about £400, but was money well spent in my view.
Well that's good practical advice; skip the My Cloud thingy then!
I was looking at a WD My Cloud but the price did make me a bit wary. Can I ask what was so awful about it?
Hungryhalibut and I are like two peas in a pod, but I have not shared his experience with regard the WD My(whatever), it works like a charm for me as my primary streaming source device (but he knows I secretly covet a UnitiServe!) There are a quite a few others here who stream from it. I have a cheap WD Elements USB drive I get out every so often and plug in to copy the new rips, takes a few minutes, then disconnect and store remotely (no powered up backup vulnerable to spiking and no automated process to accidentally go wrong either).
3TB 'MyBook Live' NAS here. Works with no issues.
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I was looking at a WD My Cloud but the price did make me a bit wary. Can I ask what was so awful about it?
I just found it really hard to set up. The whole interface seemed tricky. Maybe I'm just dim. The Synology is a lot quieter, and far easier to use.
I had 2 WD mybooks, and have just switched to a QNAP (Hs 210?) with twin 3tb WD Red drives, which I hope are mirroring. The Qnap is much quieter, having no fan, and it has some kind of intelligence of it's own which, once I had got lucky,
was much easier to work with. Controversially, I think that the SQ from the Qnap is better, but I could be imagining things.........
Unitiserve is now backing up daily to the Qnap and also to one of the Mybooks, located in another room and connected over mains. My HiDef downloads go first to my laptop, then I make a copy to the Qnap, and a further one to a 256gb USB . So nothing can go wrong........!
Simple really!!