LinkStation Pro Duo

[yosef]

   

I'd like to use the Linkstation Pro Duel with an external drive connected via USB. Will I be able to use the Raid 1 features and use that external drive as a mirror to the internal drive. Does the external disk need to be equal in size to the internal disk or can I decide that only certain data or data types will be mirrored and therefore reduce the size of the mirror disk?

 

Thanks 

 

 

[peternie]

   

Hi yosef,

 

You can use the LS Pro Duo with Raid1. Also you can use an external USB-drive to backup your data. This needs not to be the equal in size to the internal disk as you can use the web-management to set up with data will be backups, not in file types but which share.

 

I use a separate "important" share which contains all data which should be included in the backup. Afterwards I configured a backup job for this share only to the attached USB-drive.

 

Hope this helps a little bit before you receive detailled information from the experts in this forum.

 

regards from Germany,

Peter 

[Colin137]

The Linkstation's RAID functions only include the internal disks, so you will not be able to use a USB disk in that manner. If you format the USB drive with the interface, you can use it with the Disk Backup feature to make a backup of the information on the RAID array. I would recommend using Overwrite Backup - Differential, as this will be the closest to a mirror of the internal disks.