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additionally, is anybody backing up their DNS-323 to a remote location?  How?

Try with acronis true image... it does ftp

thanks guys.  I'll try the acronis.

  I did see that other post, but didn't see anybody interested in imaging software that could automatically toggle between FTP and Network drive destination depending upon availability.  I also didn't see much talk about backing up the DNS itself on this list, except manually removing/cycling drives.

I'm using SyncToy, a free Microsoft offering, to back up content on the DNS-323 to a external HDD periodically. Considerably more low-tech than what you guys are using, I guess.

I use SyncBack is freeware with many features...try..

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cellana wrote:

Hi Chumby, any chance you can make the DNS copy itself to an FTP site instead of the other drive bay?

Chumby wrote:

I didn't any of them!  Soon discovered rsync... much better - let the dns do all the copying for you!

http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t1150-Tuto … night.html

Cheers
Chumby

Are you wanting to push the data from the DNS-323 to an FTP site?  I thought you wanted the data to go the other way--from your laptop to the DNS-323 running an FTP server.

The problem with using FTP is that the data (and username and password) are not encrypted and thus can be seen by anyone while in transit.  The other problem is that FTP isn't smart enough to only transfer new/changed data, so if you try to FTP a whole directory every night, for example, then FTP will send the WHOLE directory every time which could take a while depending on the Internet connections on either end.

I understand your desire to backup your whole system and your data files.  If you don't find a good off-the-shelf solution, I recommend considering a different strategy:

I have decided I'm not as concerned any more about backing up my Windows installation--if it crashed, I probably don't want to restore it from an image but instead want to rebuild the installation from scratch so it's a clean build again.  I realize this means longer downtime in the case of a crash/failure.  If this concerns you, then you could just buy one of the retail backup software programs that images your system drive and automatically backs it up to the DNS-323 when you're at home and have the DNS-323 mapped as a network drive.  This could be done weekly as you're planning.

As for backing up the data itself, I made BackupNetClone (http://backupnetclone.sourceforge.net/).  For your situation the following might work:

- setup BNC so the DNS-323 is the backup server and your laptop is the backup client in two different ways:
   - one config is your laptop's local IP address when you're on the same network as the DNS-323; this could be snapshotted every 2 hours
   - the second config is for your laptop on a dynamic IP address; run something like DNSer on your laptop so that wherever you are, the DNS-323 can find you and run a snapshot; the problem with this setup is that if your laptop is behind a firewall (that you don't have control over) then the DNS-323 won't be able to reach your laptop in order to do the backup; hm, the more I think about this the more I realize it would be a deal-breaker

So in the end, I guess BNC probably isn't the right thing for you.  I almost cancelled this post, but someone else might find it useful...