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Question

backing up NAS drive to cloud

by Jul 4, 2015 8:49AM PDT

I use a NAS drive as my primary storage at home for photos, music etc for shared family access. are there providers who will allow me to back this up to the cloud? many don't seem to support NAS drives. HELP!

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How much data do you have?
by Jul 4, 2015 9:47AM PDT

Are you looking for free or paid cloud storage? Are you prepared for slllooooowww uploads? Personally I think there are much better alternatives to the cloud. E.g. you could be sure you have two or more copies of everything. 1 TB hard drives are around $50 and even 4 TB ones are available for around $125.

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NAS backup. reply to answer.
by robinanthony Jul 4, 2015 1:40PM PDT

Thanks for the response. Maybe i'll just get another physical drive, and keep it somewhere different to minimise the risk. Given the cost, it probably makes sense.

my data is around 250Gb at present...but expanding all the time with photos

cheers

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A drive is just a drive.
by Forum moderator Jul 4, 2015 9:59AM PDT

So you have this drive N: and you copy it up there. It's just a drive. I can't guess if you want the NAS to do that on its own.

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