Hi all-
I recently bought the baffalo linkstation station (a NAS devise). When I purchased it what I was looking for was something similar to time machine for mac computers (I have a Windows 8.1 laptop). I want the files on my computer to automatically backup seamlessly. I have about 160GB worth of files. I ran the backup and it took about 30 hours for it to complete. Then I went to look at the backup and I didn't realize that the backup is just a file in itself, it's not the actual files. I guess that may be dumb... I thought it would "backup" the files by copying them over so I had a backup copy- but that's not what it did.
First question- is there a benefit of having a backup vs files copied?
Second question- If I do the file copy it will still take about 30 hours to copy the first time. So how long will it take the next times?
What I'm looking for are my files to be copied over to this NAS drive, then automatically every time I alter a file I want that to be updated on the NAS. It doesn't look like that's how it works, but is there a way that I can say like once weekly update the files? So updating the files should only take like 15 mins unless I added a lot of photos or something. Is that possible to do?
Anyone? I feel like this should be an easy thing to do, but now I'm just frustrated because of how long everything is taking and how I can't figure it out. Are there any suggestions for any type of hardware or software that would do what I want it to do? If I could do it with the Buffalo that would be great, but I could also return that.
Thank you for all your help!
I recently bought the baffalo linkstation station (a NAS devise). When I purchased it what I was looking for was something similar to time machine for mac computers (I have a Windows 8.1 laptop). I want the files on my computer to automatically backup seamlessly. I have about 160GB worth of files. I ran the backup and it took about 30 hours for it to complete. Then I went to look at the backup and I didn't realize that the backup is just a file in itself, it's not the actual files. I guess that may be dumb... I thought it would "backup" the files by copying them over so I had a backup copy- but that's not what it did.
First question- is there a benefit of having a backup vs files copied?
Second question- If I do the file copy it will still take about 30 hours to copy the first time. So how long will it take the next times?
What I'm looking for are my files to be copied over to this NAS drive, then automatically every time I alter a file I want that to be updated on the NAS. It doesn't look like that's how it works, but is there a way that I can say like once weekly update the files? So updating the files should only take like 15 mins unless I added a lot of photos or something. Is that possible to do?
Anyone? I feel like this should be an easy thing to do, but now I'm just frustrated because of how long everything is taking and how I can't figure it out. Are there any suggestions for any type of hardware or software that would do what I want it to do? If I could do it with the Buffalo that would be great, but I could also return that.
Thank you for all your help!
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