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sjdigital

Post subject: Backing up to an external USB drive

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:04 pm

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Location: Northern Ireland

If I use the mirror function to back up my NASLite to an external USB hard drive, could I then plug that USB drive into any computer and read the files on it?

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mikeiver1

Post subject: Re: Backing up to an external USB drive

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:08 pm

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Location: Up State NY in the USA!!!!

MS windows does not read the EXT2 or EXT3 file system without a third party utility but yes in theory it should work.

Mike

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sjdigital

Post subject: Re: Backing up to an external USB drive

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:05 pm

Joined: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:08 pm
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Thanks for the response, Mike. Not what I was hoping for, however. So in order to have a backup drive readable by any Windows machine it would actually need to be created by a Windows computer on the network copying the files from the NASLite to the backup drive?

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mikeiver1

Post subject: Re: Backing up to an external USB drive

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:25 pm

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In essence, yes. Another option is to simply use the USB drive on any machine booted on a live Linux cd boot. That way you get access to both the USB drive and the windows drive/s as well.

Mike

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gaiden

Post subject: Re: Backing up to an external USB drive

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:47 am

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Location: UK

sjdigital wrote:

If I use the mirror function to back up my NASLite to an external USB hard drive, could I then plug that USB drive into any computer and read the files on it?

you could use this, http://www.fs-driver.org/

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sjdigital

Post subject: Re: Backing up to an external USB drive

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:21 am

Joined: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:08 pm
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Location: Northern Ireland

Thanks, guys.

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