Promise NS4300 Technical Questions(and hopefully answers!)

[Aussy]

First, the Promise NS4300 is a wonderful NAS. So, here's my question:

Is there any way to have the NAS do a scheduled backup of files on the NAS to a USB HDD that is attached to the NS4300?(Without hacking the OS and setting up a Cron job?). I DO NOT want to have to leave a PC on and run a scheduled backup on a PC and have it copy it from one NS4300 share to the NS4300 attached USB drive. I want the NAS to do it all by itself.

My scenerio: I has an NS4300(for home use), that is replacing a Windows Server that I was using for file storage. On the Windoze box, I attached an external USB HDD and was running daily/weekly/monthly backups of the data drives to the attached USB HDD.(This was being done in the event the server took a dump and I needed the files. Secondarily, it was being done so I could swap external HDD's and put one in the firesafe).

Second Question:
Is there a way to "unshare" the attached USB HDD so "public" users can not see/access it(Ie; I don't want my kids to access it and accidently wipe out my backups.)

Thanx for any help.

 

[thiggins]

There is no attached drive scheduled backup feature on the NS4300N or newer NS4600.

If you don't see a way to set permissions on the USB drive, then there isn't a way.