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

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Acronis backs up to both a NAS and their cloud service if you get it.
Might look into them.

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On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:45:34AM -0500, dcoleman at dgcreact.com thus spoke:
> 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
> Donald G. Coleman, Consultant
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> Indiana, PA 15701
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