Work back up on home NAS?

I'm afraid I can't comment about any specific purchase, but I'd imagine that as long as the item can be mounted as a drive in Windows then this should work.

With regards to your request, unfortunately there is not a way to do this. The only option would be to physically move your office PCs to your home so they use the local network to do the initial backup and then move them back again to do the day to day backups. Obviously unless they're on laptops, this won't be practical.

I think this would be a good feature for the future with BuddyBackup so I've made a note of this suggestion.

John

There was a temporary outage just recently - try again now.

The SuperNode requires outgoing ports to be open.

The supernode only acts as an intermediary to help the user's find each other etc. The data does NOT pass through the supernode. Once user's have found each other then they can usually connect.

Under normal circumstances you won't need the supernode to backup. However, if things like IP addresses change, then connection to the supernode would be required so buddies can find the new address.

Yes you can certainly do this.

Here are the steps you'd need to take:

1) Set up a copy of BuddyBackup running at home. Choose a new ID, say "fasteddie_home"
2) On that copy of BuddyBackup click "Tools" and "Options"
3) Click on the "Advanced" tab. Set the "Backup location" to your NAS storage (may have to be first mounted as a drive, e.g. "X:"). Restart BuddyBackup.
4) Install BuddyBackup on each of your work computers. On each of those, choose new IDs such as "fasteddie_1", "fasteddie_2" etc.
5) Add the first home buddy ("fasteddie_work") as a buddy of each of the three work buddies

BuddyBackup will only back up to chosen buddies, so each of your machines at work will all only backup to the home one.

To answer your other question, unfortunately the backups are stored in an encrypted and propriatary format so you won't be able to access without using BuddyBackup. This is not done to be awkward - the reason is so that if it was someone else's computer, your files would be protected.

We appreciate that this is a little cumbersome, so we're working on ways to make this process easier, and also enable the recipient to be able to view the receieved files.

Hope this helps.

John