According to the instructions you can only backup to a connected USB hard drive or another Linkstation.
Mengsk
OK so if I have a 750GB USB drive and it's configured for FAT32 I should be able to make a backup of my Linkstation Quad (2TB)? I presently only have about 600GB of data on the system. Yeah I know I may eventually have to get a large backup USB disk but it should work for now.
So my question is if the LS does go bad and has a drive go down... It's running RAID5 so it "should" be able to repair itself if I replaced the drive that goes bad. My question is if the raid goes south (more than one drive or the files are corrupted badly) then how easy is it to restore the files from a USB backup? I am assuming if I hooked the USB drive directly to the LS for this. Does the built in software have a good "restore" feature?
I am very worried I am only relying on the LS Quad for the data. I don't have a backup for it becuase I was under the assumption that the RAID5 would essentially be a backup. Now I am not so convinced. I think I would still like to have a stand alone backup besides the RAID5 useable data. Is this a good move to make? I mean worst case I could put the USB backup into a safe place in case something drastic happened to my system (fire, etc...)