Backing up off an NAS device (was Re: Reliable online backup for Windows)

[dcoleman at dgcreact.com]

Quoting Richard Kreiss <rkreiss at gccconsulting.net>:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
>> bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Mike Fedkiw
>> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 1:11 AM
>> To: Filepro list
>> Subject: Reliable online backup for Windows
>>
>> I never thought of asking this here until I saw the post about a  
>> Linux compatible
>> cloud service.
>>
>> Anyway, I currently have iDrive installed but every damn time I checked the
>> logs, the Backups are not complete and it's just unreliable.
>>
>> I have been looking online for other options but it's a difficult  
>> process finding
>> something that will do what I want without installing each one and  
>> trying it. I
>> definitely don't want to go through multiple different services doing that.
>>
>> All I need is to be able to select a few folders that need backing up from
>> something with a Windows Explorer type interface or similar. I only  
>> run it once
>> per day and I only need about 50gigs.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,  Mike
>
> If you are on Windows, why not try Microsoft's "One Drive" or  
> whatever they are calling it now.
>
> I also have Nuance Cloud Drive which appears with a drive  
> letter(system sees it as a network drive) in explorer making it easy  
> to use as a normal local drive.  My drive allowance is 1.35Tb.
>
>
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
>
> Office: 410-653-2813
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Slightly different flavor of question.

I have several smallish clients where I have installed NAS devices for  
document & data storage in lieu of a dedicated server.  Making a  
backup (Windows network, but both Windows & Linux-based NAS devices)  
to take off-site has been a bit of a chore.  I have not found a  
Windows-based backup utility that can be run from a client, but backup  
from the NAS > portable external drive.  So for now I have been using  
ALLWAYS SYNC to copy data from the NAS to the external drive for  
off-site storage.  Not a true backup utility but it does offer  
compression.  Now clients have begun asking instead of backing up the  
NAS to an external drive, can we backup to a cloud account.  Neither  
dropbox nor google drive recommend doing so because they say the file  
updates are marked differently on network stored files as opposed to  
files residing on a hard drive hosting the OS.  So it would appear the  
only way to post updated files to the cloud would be to sync them from  
the NAS to the dropbox or google drive folder on the client  
(manually), then sync to the cloud.  Clients prefer an automatic  
solution so as to not worry about it.  This seems like a lot of effort  
to get a worthwhile result, to say nothing of the extra diskspace  
being used up on the client.  Anyone else facing this issue, and any  
better ideas?

Don Coleman
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