I have a 1st generation 1TB Terastation. I have had it in production for about 4 years now and "knock on wood" havent had any issues.
Over the years I periodically have been copying all user folders to an external HDD over my network. Which has been fine but I really need a better way to backup user folders.
I thought I would just use NTBACKUP on a windows computer on my domain that is rarely used and schedule a daily job. My issue though is that I cant browse the terastation from the explorer window in NTBACKUP...its just greyed out. I can map a drive and then it will allow me to checkbox it and back it up. I did a test and was able to back up a sub directory under a user share that was mapped...and restore it perfectly.
My delima is that I have over 100 user shares on the terastation and I dont know if it is even possible to mount that many drives...nor would I even wan the upkeep of that if I could. Not to mention that I would have to remember to recreate my NTBACKUP every time a new user share was added.
I have looked the net over and cant seem to find any information on how to accomplish this. I do have an IBM 3100 tape library with 800GB tapes and BackupExec 12d...but I cant use that as it wants a backup agent installed on the terastation. I have read a few things online that users have had success with backupexec even though it reported errors but I never could get far enough along to even have it include the terastation in a backup job...thus my resorting to NTBACKUP, which isnt working either.
So in the proverbial nutshell...all I want is to be able to back up my 100+ user shares on a schedule to an external HDD attached to a windows box on my network...or anything of the like that will do the same.
As already stated...I have a 1st gen TS (going on 5yrs old now) and it is running the default firmware of 1.03. I really would rather not update the firmware as all of the user shares are mapped to the my doc folder on all of my users desktops. So I cant afford to have something go wrong..."bricking" my TS and having no way of users to access/create files.
Any input is greatly appreciated.
Thanks