I need to replace an aging Buffalo Live 500GB.
I don't need anything fancy or fast and looking around the WD MyCloud looked to fit the bill.
But I would also like to backup the contents to an external USB drive.
Looking at the WD MyCloud, whilst there is a backup utility you have to manually run it. I would really like something that I could leave connected and the backups would just happen overnight.
I had just about ruled out the WD MyCloud when I heard someone say that you could do this with a Cron job. Although pretty IT literate I don't have much unix experience so I don't know what I would need to do nor what it would be capable of.
So a few questions if I may
1 - Can anyone point me at some resources that might explain what I need to do.
2 - Would this do a back up or a file copy - I see the difference as this. Say I had 100 files and during the day just one had changed. A backup would copy just that file whereas a copy would copy all 100 files.
Many thanks for the help.
Cheers,
Nigel
I don't need anything fancy or fast and looking around the WD MyCloud looked to fit the bill.
But I would also like to backup the contents to an external USB drive.
Looking at the WD MyCloud, whilst there is a backup utility you have to manually run it. I would really like something that I could leave connected and the backups would just happen overnight.
I had just about ruled out the WD MyCloud when I heard someone say that you could do this with a Cron job. Although pretty IT literate I don't have much unix experience so I don't know what I would need to do nor what it would be capable of.
So a few questions if I may
1 - Can anyone point me at some resources that might explain what I need to do.
2 - Would this do a back up or a file copy - I see the difference as this. Say I had 100 files and during the day just one had changed. A backup would copy just that file whereas a copy would copy all 100 files.
Many thanks for the help.
Cheers,
Nigel