#Backup qnap to external usb drive windows 7#

I run it whenever I have my USB external drive attached from the command line but you can also automate it. I like the way it manages planning and rotation (in levels). QNAP - if you are reading - here's a good one for the wish list: Make it so that drives encrypted on the NAS can be accessed directly from Windows or MC o/s systems. Finally I have ended up with backup2l - low-maintenance backup/restore tool, its easy. Use a Sharkoon Quickport XT USD 3.0 V2 dockings station, and the drive inserted is a WD Red 3TB formatted as EXT4. Just cancelled a HBS job that had been running for 11 hours, and had only transfered 34 GB.

I guess the only other options are to not encrypt the drive at all (not so useful if someone pinches it), or continue to use Acronis to create encrypted back-up files and transfer these on my external drive manually (was hopeful that this wouldn't be necessary). mount a backup snapshot of a server with multiple LVM drives. If I do a HBS3 local oneway-sync to an USB 3.0 attached external drive it is incredibly slow. Like you I'd only need to restore data if my QNAP died, and then I wouldn't have a QNAP available to access the backup drive (much as I'd like to, I don't just have spare QNAP systems sitting around the place ready to go if I need to restore one). It does seem a bit odd that an encrypted backup wouldn't be accessible other than through another QNAP.

#Backup qnap to external usb drive windows 7#

I thought I read somewhere that the QNAP encryption is based on Bitlocker - which would imply that it should work on a Windows 7 machine - I guess not, though. Thanks for letting us know what happened.

Was just about to take the plunge myself and discovered TMP's responses.