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Post by bwarren on Dec 7, 2008 23:14:03 GMT 7
My one wish is for the Thecus to provide a module to allow the admin to set one of the USBHDD to a back up drive. From there you can then choose which folders you want backed up on the USBHDD. After which you can set a scheduled backup
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Post by midknight on Dec 14, 2008 10:16:26 GMT 7
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Post by tlea on Feb 1, 2009 8:12:44 GMT 7
Yep.
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Post by brucep on Jul 3, 2009 4:51:33 GMT 7
If you know a little bit about linux this shouldn't be too difficult to do. I haven't used a USB disk with my N5200 but I had one lying around and plugged it in to see what would happen. If it's unformatted or not formatted with a linux partition then the N5200 seems to ignore it. If you format it as a linux partition and then plug it into the N5200 then it will locate the linux partition and mount it.
Assuming your N5200 is fully loaded with 5 disks, those disks show up in linux as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd, and /dev/sde. So when you plug in a linux formatted USB disk it will show up as /dev/sdf. If there's a single partition on the disk then the N5200 will mount it as /raid0/data/usbhdd/usb/sdf1. This means that if you browse the N5200 from Windows you'll see the disk show up as \\<n5200_host_name>\usbhdd\usb\sdf1. If you log into the web admin GUI for your N5200 you'll also see it list the USB disk under Storage -> Disks but it won't let you do much of anything other than eject it.
Since it's connected to the N5200 at a known mountpoint then it's a relatively simple matter of using a module like the RSNAPSHOT one I wrote to automatically back up to the USB disk.
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