Qnap one touch backup

Posted by: hungryhalibut on 21 April 2017

I have a Qnap TS-253A nas, and ever since getting it last year I have used the one touch backup button on the front to backup to WD My Passport USB drives. Previously, pressing the button did a differential backup of new additions to the NAS, and took a matter of minutes, depending on how much music I'd added to the NAS.

Very recently I updated to the new Qnap firmware, and now pressing the button will only do a full backup, which takes four or five hours. I have checked the backup and it's all good. Thinking that it may be a one-off glitch, I tried it again, and it took the same four hours. I tried my second backup drive too, and the result was just the same.

Has anyone else tried this yet? Does anyone have any ideas? It's a bit of a pain if I need to do a full backup every time I add a couple of albums.

Many thanks.

Posted on: 29 April 2017 by Jonn

The link I posted shows that two people have already "raised a ticket" with QNAP support in the last few days about this issue so a fix should be issued soon.

Posted on: 29 April 2017 by hungryhalibut

I was thinking that I didn't want to be one of those people who sits back and lets others do the work. I'll give it a go but won't worry if I can't manage - I'm supposed to be keeping my brain active, though I find this sort of thing really hard to do.

Posted on: 29 April 2017 by MangoMonkey

There is an old tool called synctoy. You can use it to keep two folders in sync. That's what I use.

these folders can be across machines.

Posted on: 29 April 2017 by NFG

You could try using SyncBack SE by Two bright Sparks the SE is a free program which is rather good. the UI is very easy & will do a differential / incremental backup with a schedule.