I looked at it a while ago when I was trying out different programs. I'm going to take another look at Macrium. Note again - if you take incrementals / differentials on Windows - simply backup those generated files - on Windows created with the Macrium backup - incremental / differential (1 data file) to your NAS with the rsync / grsync selection - you should always have more than 1 set of backups. However whatever method(s) you use it's important to have backup that works, is reliable and restorable when you need it. You could run a test job to see what command is generated then create a crontab job with the CLI program Simply mount the Windows HDD's on to your NAS and browse to the directory / directories you want to back up - recursion is also allowed etc -too many options to display in a short post. Here's the GUI for GRSYNC Both Source and target HDD's / directories etc can be anywhere on your network whether windows machines or not so long as SAMBA can access the HDD's. Using the Linux CLI program (rsync) makes automated backups a breeze - just use the crontab for scheduling jobs.

Simply connect via connect network drive via samba and run the program rsync/grsync restoring / backing up what data you want. Paid version of Macrium also worth it if you like incremental and differential backups and are not a Linux user.įrom a Linux based NAS it's easy to do a data backup / restore to / from Windows drives via rsync / grsync (grsync is the gui version of rsync). That's though a Windows problem rather than Macrium. Rsync/grsync for data backups - there's though no reason why you shouldn't use macrium for these too but disadvantage is if you have long file + directory names (> 266 chars) you get the 'truncated' version. I also use DD command on linux - reliable, 100% independant of disk format / geometry (so long as image fits on target drive) - disadvantge is complex to use if you don't like command line and takes quite a long time to run as it copies everything bitwise from Disk a to Disk b. +1 to cereberus -> Macrium definitely reliable, easy cheap (free for basic use) - pretty well all other windows stuff found failed at some critical point. I've done backups also on all conceivable hardware

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