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Windows based NAS-to-local drive backup software options? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Currently have have 2 QNAPs. They contain everything including backups of all the PCs in the house. The QNAPs are mounted as NFS shares on a Linux box which runs Crashplan for my off-site backup.
In case of problems I'd like to have a second on-site backup option. I currently have a 22TB drive in my gaming PC and occasionally copy/paste the contents of the QNAPs to it.

I've been trying to find some software to automate/schedule this, and I've so far tried Veeam Agent and Acronis. Acronis does backup NAS to local drive, but packages everything in a backup file that I assume nothing else can open so I'm locked into their software. Veeam and a few other solutions I've tried don't offer the NAS as a source, even when assigned a drive letter.

Any suggestions? I don't need anything like versioning, just looking to basically automate the copy/paste.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Acronis does backup NAS to local drive, but packages everything in a backup file that I assume nothing else can open so I'm locked into their software.

Hi /u/lutinopat, I just wanted to clarify the matter above. While indeed, Acronis archives are done in proprietary .tib and .tibx formats, they can be opened even using the trial of any most recent version of the software, so even if you no longer have an active license of the product you can still recover your data.

It's been like this since the very beginning.