Hi, first time poster.....so bear with me
I have a Unitiserve 2Tb which I love, it now has some 1000+ CDs ripped on it and....is not backed up!!!!
I run the US on my wifi using a netgear wifi Ethernet adaptor, which works great.
I do not want to invest in NAS simply because my wife will execute me if any more cables appear in the living room.
So my thinking and has anyone else tried this idea - Stick a crossover Cat5e/6 cable into the Eithernet port on the UServe and then into the Ethernet Port on my MacBook and plug a 2TB external hard drive into the USB Port of the MacBook and backup at Gigabit Ethernet speed.
Has anyone tried this? Did it work? Should it work? If not why not, where is my logic flawed.
Thanks, Paul
Posted on: 12 March 2016 by hungryhalibut
While Phil is brilliant, and I very much enjoyed our chats when he has dialled into my (then) UnitiServe, it really shouldn't be so bloomin' hard to get it to back up. The best thing I ever did was get rid of it - all I do now is plug a portable USB drive into the Synology and backup is a breeze. One would imagine a tweak to the Serve's backup routine would save a lot of people a lot of angst.
Posted on: 26 March 2016 by Bart
I just got a new nas up and running and wanted to let my uServe backup to it. For some reason, I find it absolutely SIMPLE to convert a shared folder on the nas to a share, and from there to a backup store, using the web client on the uServe itself. Far easier this way than using n-Serve for OS X. Don't ask me why . . . but it is. It just works EVERY time for me using the uServe's own web interface. /shrug
