I've got a 500GB LinkStation that we're using sort of as our server. It holds most of our critical data on the network, as well as almost everyone's XP "My Docs" folders and a few applications. We've been using it about six months and couldn't be happier. Throughput is better than on my old network; very impressive indeed.
But here's a problem: Every day I back up the drive to a Buffalo Ministation (250GB). On one drive that we bought at the same time as the Buffalo NAS LinkStation, backup goes fine. Takes less than two hours, in fact. I've bought a total of two more MiniStations (so we can alternate backup media), and backup fails every time.
I'm using the backup applet built into the browser-based LinkStation software ("Disk Backup"). The backup ends with the cryptic message "An error occurred during backup." I've search this site and these forums for some more explanation of what the error could possibly mean, but I haven't found anything.
Sooooooo......can I use the backup applet to back up my LinkStation NAS server to a Buffalo MiniStation? Why is it working on one drive and not another? (I've formatted the disks for XFS.) Is there a workaround?
Any help would be most appreciated.