Backing up a UnitiServe 2TB

Posted by: Yeast on 04 June 2014

This is probably a novice question, but I cannot seem to find a previous posting on this topic.

 

I am using a MAC based operating system and tried to set up and NAS using a Q412 without luck. Most posts deal with PC based systems. I now have 1300 CDs on the US 2TB and need to back it up. It would be nice to use my NAS, but it just doesn't seem doable in my home network.If I could just format the disks and make a direct backup, that would be my choice. I also have a Seagate 3TB backup drive as well. Right now I want to get a Backup ASAP.

 

How can I connect the US 2TB to the 3TB drive to back it up….or do I need to connect the 3TB drive to my Macbook pro and back up the US? 

Posted on: 04 June 2014 by Jasonf

Hi Yeast,

 

The simplest way is to connect your backup NAS to the router (which your U-Serve is also attached to) then open the u-Serve Desk Top Client on your pc and control the back-up process from that environment.

 

You will have to create a new share folder called "u-Serve backup" or similar, on the NAS. But otherwise numpty here managed it so I am sure an hours fiddling around in the DTC will get you going.

 

Jason.

 

p.s. When I say "share", do I actually mean "store" ? Can't remember, but your NAS will tell you how to set up the back-up folder on that NAS.

Posted on: 04 June 2014 by hungryhalibut

I suggest that you call the share something like musicbackup with no gaps, spaces, hyphens or caps. Then promote it to backup, and off you go. You'll find a guide in the Knowledge Base.

Posted on: 04 June 2014 by Bart

Yeast hi. First step, get the nas onto your home network so that you can see its folders and files in OS X Finder.

 

Have you managed to do that?

 

 

Posted on: 05 June 2014 by Claus-Thoegersen

tHERE IS A DESKTOP CLIENT FOR MAC ALSO, AND IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME AS THE PC DESKTOP CLIENT.

If you can see the folders on the dtc in finder, you could simply copy the folders as you would do with other files and folders, but in the long run you will want to have an incremental backup solution.

Claus

Posted on: 05 June 2014 by Bart

If he can see the nas folders in Finder, then the uServe should see them and be able to create shares and stores and backup folders on the nas.

 

First step is to make sure they are truly 'on' the network.

Posted on: 05 June 2014 by Yeast

Thanks All, just for background…I set up the Qnap 412 based on the included software and thats where the trouble began. The software limits how you can set up drives, and I have 2 2TB drives installed in 2 of the 4 bays.. The software assumes you know all the terms and all I really wanted is a formatted pair of drives that I can back up onto. I  could see the drive in Desktop client, but whenever I tried to back up the UServe either through scheduler or manually, the backup fails. When it was in the system the  Qnap, US, and my UQ were all ethernet connected, but not my Macbook pro which is wireless on the same network. I control Client from the macbook. Is it possible to bypass the rather complicated software setup and go a simpler route. I do already have a time capsule which automatically backs up my Macbook. Finder did not show the QNAP when it was connected to the network, but did see the Timecapsule.

Posted on: 05 June 2014 by Bart
Originally Posted by Yeast:

Thanks All, just for background…I set up the Qnap 412 based on the included software and thats where the trouble began. The software limits how you can set up drives, and I have 2 2TB drives installed in 2 of the 4 bays.. The software assumes you know all the terms and all I really wanted is a formatted pair of drives that I can back up onto. I  could see the drive in Desktop client, but whenever I tried to back up the UServe either through scheduler or manually, the backup fails. When it was in the system the  Qnap, US, and my UQ were all ethernet connected, but not my Macbook pro which is wireless on the same network. I control Client from the macbook. Is it possible to bypass the rather complicated software setup and go a simpler route. I do already have a time capsule which automatically backs up my Macbook. Finder did not show the QNAP when it was connected to the network, but did see the Timecapsule.

I suspect that it was not the QNap setup software (which probably did, mostly, the drive formatting stuff, such as which flavor of raid it used) that got in the way.

 

Given that Finder did not show the nas, my first guess is that it simply was not on the network fully / properly. 

 

Also, there is the issue of changing the name of the Workgroup on the nas to Naim.  (Home is usually standard; but Naim gear wants it to be Naim.)