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Title: Terrastation - Duplicate data on JBOD
Post by: pkroker on May 02, 2013, 10:23:24 AM

I have a Dual drive TeraStation configured with the drives in JBOD.  Everything is working correctly. I would like to periodically duplicate the contents of one drive into the other, hopefully in an automated way. Is this even possible with the standard firmware. I am not interested in RAID because I don't need the complexity of XFS raids as well as I require portability.  Other than maybe using a telnet enabled firmware with a cron, is there any other way to accomplish this with the vanilla stock firmware?.

 

Thanks

Title: Re: Terrastation - Duplicate data on JBOD
Post by: davo on May 02, 2013, 12:30:30 PM
What's the model number and firmware if your unit? You should be able to run an automated backup from one disk to another from system - backup.
Title: Re: Terrastation - Duplicate data on JBOD
Post by: pkroker on May 02, 2013, 01:55:57 PM

Thanks for the reply davo. It is a TS-WXL running firmware 1.59.   When creating an automated backup job, it only gives me USB1 as a suitable target (Whether there is a drive plugged there or not).  I can select the 2nd disk as a source but never as a target. It would be really nice to have this option.

Title: Re: Terrastation - Duplicate data on JBOD
Post by: davo on May 02, 2013, 04:04:13 PM
Click shared folders - select the share that is on HDD2 - make sure "Disk Backup" is ticked beside shared folder support. That share should now appear as a destination for the backup.
Title: Re: Terrastation - Duplicate data on JBOD
Post by: pkroker on May 02, 2013, 06:03:14 PM

Thank you so much. That did it.

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